“Yeah, you know… the fact of the matter is, your life is a constant stream of changes, I mean, you start one day accepting a job offer, and you end, saving the world. And you’re going to walk through that door, and your life will never be the same, and I wish I could tell you that everyday from now on will be amazing, and the happiest day of your life, but that’s not the way that life works, but every day will be made better because she’s in it with you. You aren’t going to be alone ever again, even if you’re ever separated, you’ll still never be alone.”
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“When someone leaves your life, those exits… are… not made equal. Some are beautiful, and poetic, and satisfying. Others are… abrupt and unfair, but most are just unremarkable, unintentional, clumsy. Where Lup went, she didn’t intend to end up there and she certainly didn't intend to spend as much time away as she did.”
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“One day… believe it or not… you're gonna laugh at a joke.
You're gonna go swimming, and you're gonna smile in the sunlight.
You're gonna pet yourself a good dog, and it‘s gonna make you feel happy.
You ain't always gonna feel like this, Pigeon.
Other people, maybe, but not you. And how do you get there? How do you get to that point? I don't know.
But you are gonna get there.”
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You're gonna go swimming, and you're gonna smile in the sunlight.
You're gonna pet yourself a good dog, and it‘s gonna make you feel happy.
You ain't always gonna feel like this, Pigeon.
Other people, maybe, but not you. And how do you get there? How do you get to that point? I don't know.
But you are gonna get there.”
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“Our capacity for love increases with each person we cross paths with throughout our lives, and with each moment we spend with those people. But too often we neglect that part of ourselves in favor of other. And by the time we realize just how important it is, we find ourselves with fewer folks around to practice with. But the seven of you have something that nobody else ever had: time. All the time in the world. Time enough to grow indescribably close. Time enough to learn how to care for each other, how to allow yourselves to be cared for. And in the case of Barry and Lup, time enough to fall deeply and truly in love”
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“You are so young, all still lies ahead of you, and I should like to ask you, as best I can, dear Sir, to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue. Do not now strive to uncover answers: they cannot be given you because you have not been able to live them. And what matters is to live everything. Live the questions for now. Perhaps then you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer, one distant day in the future.”
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