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“music can be a bridge to better understanding between people because most everybody loves a good tune… most everybody loves breathing, too, and where did that get us? Some loves don’t signify”

“As much pain as my loved ones feel now, how long will it be until I am just a memory?”

“Either we outrun the storm or it outruns us”

“And if [he] should ask, ‘But why do i have to do this?’
We can only say, ‘Because this is the way things are.’”

“I like my pretty with a purpose”

“‘Sure as the sun will rise tomorrow…’
‘Well, there’s no proof that will happen. You can’t count on things happening tomorrow just because they happened in the past. It’s faulty logic.’
‘Is it?… Because it’s kind of how people plan out their lives.’
‘And that’s part of our trouble. Thinking things are inevitable. Not believing change is possible.’”

“Why go around asking for trouble? Plenty to be had without inviting it in”

“we still carry the scent of sedition, scary and seductive in equal parts”

“even the poorest people can scrape up a few Pennie’s to dump their misery on somebody else”

oh boy, starting with a bunch of philosophical quotes i barely understand. wish me luck!

“The Truth About True Love is that it can wait a lifetime. Or two.”

“What I’ve learned- after all this time- is that love is indeed the only rational act.
And the only real lifesaver”

“The first thing in decades that I left to total chance, and it came up a jackpot.
There’s a lesson there, i think”

“One favor merits another, i hope”

“there comes a point where you want to see what comes next more than you want to go back”

“she thought a marriage meant enduring”

“We invent all kinds of theories about how our hearts get broken, when we’re the ones who drop them on the floor”

“What is it about love that makes us think we can tame it, when all the while it is taming us?”

“trying to find my way through the smoke, i stepped into the fire”

“Sadly, when you lose yourself, you don’t realize who else you’re losing, too”

“I have already made my case about moments: how you forget so many over a lifetime, yet a lifetime can turn on a single one”

“This was when I still believed that a heart could be distracted from itself”

“I have had second chances all my life. They’ve only left me with a failure to appreciate”

“Some events in life you process as they happen. Others take a lifetime to understand”

“A single thought can change every part of you”

“what you tell yourself long enough becomes, like new paint on an old wall, the only color you see”

“I knew my focus… was forged in guilt, perhaps the world’s strongest motivator for man’s temporary good behavior.”

“Despite my remarkable power, I’ll die like anyone else, having done what I could with what I had.”

“Secrecy is a loan against your better judgment. You pay the interest in regret.”

“there are planks that we walk and planks we jump off”