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You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.

“Isn’t that strange, how that works? You can think something that used to be true but isn’t true anymore but still believe it in your bones.”

Fear was when you wandered into a cellar and worried that the door would close shut. Despair was when the door closed and locked behind you.

“Between life and death there is a library. And within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be different if you had made other choices… Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?”

“He had the eeriest feeling - as if the world were growing older around him, and the best part of existence - laughter, love and innocence - were slipping irrevocably into the past.”

“…joy and grief are human birthrights, but mostly, being alive is everything in between.”

“Grief is the price we pay for love. A broken heart in exchange for a whole one.”

“There are plenty of things that hurt people without people ever really knowing why. Anxiety can act as internal gravity, shrinking the soul.”

“Grief … is love’s most honest expression. The last and hardest aspect of truly, truly caring for someone. … without grief, love would be meaningless. Because it is impossible to truly love something that cannot be lost.”

“She’d heard once that guilt was for something you’d done—you could feel guilty for a certain behavior or action but still fundamentally know you are a good person—but shame was deeper, shame was for who you were.”

“I think that if you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.”

“All her life she had bumbled through social contact like the only actor who’d forgotten to look at the script.”

“I am but paper. Brittle and thin.”

“To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. To take things out of the world and make them only yours.”

“I knew it was coming and yet I did not realize it would feel so bad, so ruinous, I did not realize there could be no preparation for this kind of pain. It is really fucking sad that it should take loss to know the precise quality of love.”

“I have lost too much and am too much lost.”

“I feel so incidental to your life, but you’re so central to mine.”

“When you’re a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you’re an adult you realize that’s the worst part of it. That you have to have opinions all the time…”

“I would not let a man who knew the value of nothing make me doubt the value of myself.”

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“…but the dead are never far. They find us in dreams, and keep teaching us from the inside long after they go, so you might come to find each other, in some blue-white field, or overgrown underbrush, or beneath a forest home you’ll remember but have never known.”

“But truths don’t ever change. Only lies do.”

“…was something else. Something beyond language. I get frustrated this way so often. A photograph can say ‘This is what it was.’ Language can only say ‘This is what it was like.’”

“And isn’t it strange, how everything we do in our capacity as humans only asserts us more as the animals we are. Aren’t we so insecure a species that we’re forever gazing at ourselves and trying to ascertain what makes us different. We great ingenious curious beings who pioneer into space and change the future, when really the only thing humans can do that other animals cannot is start fire from nothing.”