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“Don't be so tied up trying to do the right thing when the smart thing is so painfully clear."

“The world doesn't give things, you take things. If you learn one thing from me, it should probably be that."

“Presto atención al lenguaje de las cosas que existen en el mundo pero que no pueden usar palabras. A eso lo llamo «Escuchar" y lo he estado haciendo durante los últimos sesenta años.”

“No matter what we lose, no matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever.”

“The love someone gives you will be a reflection of the love you give yourself.”

“Be the person you wish you could be, not the person you feel you are doomed to be. Let yourself run away with your feelings. You were made so that someone could love you. Let them love you.”

“Somewhere in our fifteen years of walking side by side, from school to university lectures, to the streets around our first place in London, we had stopped playing at being grown-ups and accidentally become grown-ups.”

“I wondered if I would ever have that with someone or if I was even built to float in a sea of love.”

“I realized that places are kingdoms of memories and relationships; that the landscape is only ever a reflection of how you feel inside.”

“I knew I had to let him go so he could be with someone who really wanted to be in a relationship with all the love and commitment he deserved.”

“Everything will change. Everything will change. The Love we have for each other stays the same, but the format, the tone, the regularity and the intimacy of our friendship will change for ever.”

“If a man loves you because you are thin, he's no man at all.”

I’m about halfway through and I’m really enjoying it. Some of my favourite passages so far:

“Perhaps it was because this was the only way I had learnt to get to know someone, with a distance in between us, with enough space for me to curate and filter the best version of myself possible”

“And the more perfect I strived to be, the more imperfections I noticed.”