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“Listen to me." Her voice is urgent now. "Life can feel very long sometimes, but in the end, it goes so fast." Her eyes are glassy with tears, but she is smiling. "You better live a good life, Henry Strauss.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Remove this quote from your collection
“I gave you the power to see love. The heartbreak is just one part of it. It’s not the all of it. Why did you only focus on the ending?”
“Because it’s the most important part.”
“Is it?” she asks. “It wasn’t supposed to be a curse, Evie. It was supposed to be a gift.”
― Instructions for Dancing
“I gave you the power to see love. The heartbreak is just one part of it. It’s not the all of it. Why did you only focus on the ending?”
“Because it’s the most important part.”
“Is it?” she asks. “It wasn’t supposed to be a curse, Evie. It was supposed to be a gift.”
― Instructions for Dancing
“I’m screwing this up. What I’m saying is I finally figured out that endings don’t matter nearly as much as I thought they did.”
“What matters, then?”
I sit back down. “Beginnings are nice, but the best part is right now, in the wide-open middle. I made fun of you, but you were right this whole time. I should live in the moment and all that other stuff.”
― Instructions for Dancing
“What matters, then?”
I sit back down. “Beginnings are nice, but the best part is right now, in the wide-open middle. I made fun of you, but you were right this whole time. I should live in the moment and all that other stuff.”
― Instructions for Dancing
“He always liked learning. Loved it, really. If he could have spent his whole life sitting in a lecture hall, taking notes, could have drifted from department to department, haunting different studies, soaking up language and history and art, maybe he would have felt full, happy.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Every day is a good day, if you look hard enough.”
― The No-Show
― The No-Show
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