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“It’s a weird phrase in English, in love, like it’s a sea you drown in or a town you live in. You don’t get to be in anything else—in friendship or in anger or in hope. All you can be in is love.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“What I love about science is that as you learn, you don't really get answers. You just get better questions.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“He fit so perfectly in the love story I'd imagined for myself that I mistook him for the love of my life.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read
“I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter.”
― Love Letters to the Dead
― Love Letters to the Dead
“We never really talked much or even looked at each other, but it didn't matter because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe even more intimate than eye contact anyway. I mean, anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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