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"Yes, but they're still a two-way street. There's a difference between being loyal to someone and letting them take advantage of you."

"I wonder what it could have been like for us, if we had met in another lifetime. If maybe, somehow, we did. If we've found each other again in this one. If maybe, we'll have to wait for another to have a little bit more."

"I've never pretended anything with you."
And then his mouth is on mine.

"Yes," Charley says to East. " You are mine."

"in the background, Bad Bunny is playing"

"His attention feels like a weight. Like a hook in the center of me, dragging me closer."

" All I knew was that I'd finally found the right words.
I wanted to spend the rest of my life saying them."

"Maybe nobody else in the world agreed. Maybe we were unreliable sources now; maybe that was what it meant to be in love."

“Something doesn’t have to last forever to matter.”

“I could have looked back through the messages we’d sent, brushed hands with the ghost of what she’d felt for me.”

“None of it was real. I had invented the person I’d been falling for.”

“Kissing was not supposed to feel this way, I wasn't seventeen, but when I breathed in, his scent seemed to fill me, that rich, sweet smell, almond and amber, intensifying this sensation like hunger.”

“This was different, this spiky, erratic feeling that had me distracted at work, that had me losing track of paragraphs halfway through a book, that had me staring into the darkness beyond the subway windows and thinking about the sight of him, messy-haired, in his apartment doorway.”

“ Please come inside, please stay for hours, please find something in the corners of my life that makes you want me.”

“ I was the one who was going to have to speak with him for an hour, trying to ignore my own inevitable reactions to the sound of his voice”

“because whatever he gave me still felt better than nothing.”

" I'd never loved anything without twisting it into knots."

" That the idea of never learning more about him frustrated me."

"Someone who wanted the real thing, even when it wasn't nice."

“I see the value of disappointment and partial success. But while we're talking about the whole fabric of the human expe rience, l also see the value in anger and even some level of defensiveness, which remind you to value your own life and time and perspective, and not to prostrate yourself at other people's altars.”

“I have exactly one life. We should all feel outraged when the irreplaceable moments of our time on earth are misspent.”

“I only get one life. I want it to be full of what’s good.”

“Someone who didn't mind disagreement, who actually seemed to have fun engaging with my thoughts. Someone who would ask questions about small things in my life as though they mattered. Someone who seemed to like me.” 2/2

“Part of me had accepted that what I was looking for didn't exist: a man who was a reader, who wasn't put off by my career or my opinions, who read and loved women authors. A man who loved what he did, whether that was ornithology or programming or getting under the hood of beater cars.” 1/2