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“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact they’re not” (384)

“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.” (Julia, 368)

“When she turned I grabbed her shoulders and I kissed her. I took the things I couldn’t bring myself to say, and poured them into her.
There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it’s the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It’s far easier than telling ourselves the truth.” (216).

“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?” (138).

“Her hair is longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parentheses around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear” (117).