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I’M SOOOO READY FOR THIS!!!

« Il y a les visages que l’on croise et ceux qui restent. Il y a les visages que l’on choisit et ceux qui s’imposent. Il y a les visages que l’on oublie et ceux qui nous marquent. »

« Il et de ces présences qui appartiennent aux évidences, de ces êtres qui cheminent si près, depuis si longtemps, qu’ils sont un prolongement de soi. »

« Elle était née ainsi, dotée d’une mélancolie encombrante, qui déposait un voile opaque sur toutes les bonnes nouvelles et les moments joyeux. Parfois, sans raison perceptible, elle sentait un gouffre s’ouvrir dans son ventre et un vide abyssal l’aspirer. Elle s’en était accommodée, comme on s’habitue à un bruit de fond. »

« Sometimes, it was okay to get a little ugliness into your story. It would never rob you of all the beauty. »

« This is how life feels too often. Like you’re doing everything you can to survive only to be sabotaged by something beyond your control, maybe even some darker part of yourself. Sometimes, it was your body. Your cells turning into poison and fighting against you […] sometimes, it was lust or heartbreak or loneliness or fear driving you off the road toward something you’d spent months or years avoiding. »

« The only promise you ever had in life was the one moment you were living. »

« If you think the story has an ending, it’s because it’s not over yet. »

« Sometimes life is very hard. Sometimes it demands so much of you that you start losing pieces of yourself as you stretch out to give what the world wants to take. »

« People were complicated. They weren’t math problems; they were collections of feelings and decisions and dumb luck. The world was complicated too, not a beautifully hazy french film, but a disastrous, horrible mess, speckled with brilliance and love and meaning. »

« I shouldn’t need everyone to believe in or want the things I believed in and wanted. »

4/5 🌟

I need to digest everything that I just read.

« She is so good at predicting what will happen in books, so bad at predicting what will happen in life. That is why she has always preferred books - because to be alive is much harder. »

« Becoming who you want to be is just like anything else. It takes practice. It requires belief that one day, you’ll wake up and be a natural at it. »

« It is not an easy thing to do, walk away from what you’ve built and save yourself […] it is so much easier to sit in things and wait for something to save us. »

« Funny how you can live long enough, go through enough, and learn how to stop trusting yourself. »