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"in the real world, you have to identify which three qualities you want to spend the rest of your life with, and then you look for those qualities in another person. that's real life. don't you see it's a trap? if you keep trying to find everything, you'll wind up with nothing.
- so what did you pick?
+ i don't know. i dont't know"

"u take all the things u want from a person, sexual chesmistry, let's say, or good conversation, or financial support, or intellectual compatibility, or niceness, or loyalty, and u get to pick three of those things. three, that's it. maybe four, if u're very lucky. the rest you have to look for elsewhere. it's only in the movies that you find someone who gives u all of those things. but this isn't the movies".

1. "he knew: you always sacrificed something, the question was what you sacrificed".
2. "they were devoid of humor and in a constant state of yearning for their younger selves, back when life had actually seemed so full of promise and hope, back when they had been romantic, back when life itself had been a romance".
3. "relationships never provide you with everything, they provided you some things".