“I think you forsake the people you loved before... when you fall in love again. But it doesn't erase anything. [...] You don't leave it so far behind that you can't instantly remember, that you can't pick it up like a book you read a long time ago and remember how it felt then.”
― One True Loves
― One True Loves
“I am constantly trying to learn the rules, only to realize that the people who win don't seem to follow any.”
― In Five Years
― In Five Years
“Sometimes things that appear very different on the surface are actually exactly the same at their core.”
― The Inheritance Games
― The Inheritance Games
“Adults love to tell teenagers that “one day” and “sooner or later” plenty of things are going to happen. They love to say that things happen “before you know it,” and they really love to impart how fast time “flies by.”
I would learn later that almost everything my parents told me in this regard turned out to be true. College really did “fly by.” I did change my mind about Keanu Reeves “sooner or later.” I was on the other side of thirty “before I knew it.” And, just as my father said that afternoon, “one day” I was going to need my sister very, very much.”
― One True Loves
I would learn later that almost everything my parents told me in this regard turned out to be true. College really did “fly by.” I did change my mind about Keanu Reeves “sooner or later.” I was on the other side of thirty “before I knew it.” And, just as my father said that afternoon, “one day” I was going to need my sister very, very much.”
― One True Loves
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