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“He moved to Portland to escape his childhood, and now he wants to move somewhere else to escape his adulthood.”

”Men without women, we thought, were like plants that had forgotten how to take in the sun. They grew droopy and bedraggled in times of crisis, completely unable to help themselves.”

” They were like water in two streams that had merged and then separated again. And even if they now diverged, flowing through different terrain, taking on various shapes, they had once been one and the same, and who could possibly remove them from each other?”

”We formed these elaborate fantasies of romantic partnerships, Romeos and Majnus, who we’ll spend our days and nights with in a passion of rose petals and fireworks while discounting our non-romantic relationships (if such distinctions can even be made), often more enduring andauthentic..”

” a life not lived in splendor is not a life lived.”

“‘Are you happy?’ he once asks Jude.
‘I don’t think happiness is for me.’”

“Dissonance before moments of harmony, makes the harmony sound beautiful. Just as harmony and dissonance exist side-by-side in music, life is the same. Because harmony is preceded by dissonance, that’s why we think life is beautiful.”

“Don’t glorify the events of your life and try to give the meaning. There is no meaning. Life means nothing. Death means nothing.“

"It really is the end of an era, isn't it? Or maybe the era already ended without our quite having realized it."

”This is what our life is now, Hussam. The youth are scattered. This is what it is to live under the rifle.”

”The person you fall in love with is always slightly different from the person you need to stay in love with. More real and more flawed, but also more complex and better defined.”

”I know she was good,” I said. But was she
happy?”
“One is more important than the other, don’t you agree?”

”Love happens, and so do miracles.”