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It is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.

“I still sometimes forget that she’s gone, and when I remember, it’s like being swallowed by my grief all over again.”

“I think sometimes things have to get really dark for us to see what we have”

“Success is often the result of a series of failures.… You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person”

Can grief ever be good?

Tienen mas sensibilidad que talento

Solo parece reavivar su pulsión al desafio

Thank you for loving me

Surprise, right away by how well our bodies and limbs fit together, and thought of how ever since, we both slept best when entwined

“I work my whole life to get to this point, and then you give me cancer?”

“She has your cell membrane”

“Out here, you’re small and there’s no one else around, but you’re not lonely. It’s like you’re connected to everyone and everything.”
“Exactly,” he says. “And you remember to marvel. It’s so easy to forget how incredible this planet is”

“I’m not sure what parts of me are him and which parts are genuinely my own”

“So much of the things I was hoping to protect you from I couldn’t. But I will always be here for you.”

“Take it from me; it’s better to be a little picky and hold out for real friends, ’cause the fake friends can crush you.”

“Yeah, but . . . a real friend wouldn’t care about the movies you’ve seen. They’d include you anyway.”

They’re a reminder that sometimes we screw up, and sometimes the system screws with us, but if you live your life with enough passion and boldness, then that’s what you’ll be remembered for. Not the crap that happened along the way.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman.)

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine….

for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted.

Fitting together effortlessly

Now I plan to spend a lifetime making it up for her

Relieved that I can finally ask him questions without being scared I’ll upset him.

The difference between the ugly side of love and the beautiful side of love is that the beautiful side is much lighter. It makes you feel like you're floating. It lifts you up. Carries you.
The beautiful parts of love hold you above the rest of the world. They hold you so high above all the bad stuff, and you just look down on everything else and think, Wow. I'm so glad I'm up here.

Some things are a gift, even if we don’t get to keep them