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“My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“I understood then, the immense honor it is to hurt like she does. To have loved someone so much that the taste of maple syrup can make you cry and laugh at the same time.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“That crush of happiness, that feeling that this is what life’s about: being somewhere beautiful, with someone you love.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
“Tomorrow we will love each other a little more, and the next day, and the next day. And even on those days when one or both of us is having a hard time, we’ll be here, where we are completely known, completely accepted, by the person whose every side we love wholeheartedly. I’m here with all the versions of him I’ve met over twelve years of vacations, and even if the point of life isn’t just being happy, right now, I am. Down to the bones.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
“There aren't words vast or specific enough to capture the ecstasy and the ache and love and fear I feel just looking at him now.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
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