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“she wondered whether she would ever understand this version of Landon; a man who could spend a decade weaving a tapestry only to cut the yarn at the center.”

damn

“Landon wrapped his long arms around Rose and did his best to hold her together. But you can’t keep a ghost from slipping through your fingers.”

god this is just horrible wow my heart breaks for her

“Because my bar is low,” he said. “As long as I’m with you in the end, it’s all turned out.”

“What does the body remember that our minds do not?”

the body keeps the score !!

“Two sentences, left unsaid: “I wouldn’t wish the pain of being forgotten on anyone. It is the worst pain imaginable.””

“Apricity: the warmth of the sun in the winter. ‘When you are as cold as you are,’ my father said, placing a hand on my snow-burned face, ‘there is something remarkable about leaning back into the sun.’ We sat there together a long time, feeling it.”

“this new version of her was beginning to understand in her cells that you only became by doing; that every action you take becomes a piece of who you are.”

“I thought it was obvious when I jumped into that pond,” Landon said, his eyes crinkling at the corners in a way that made him look significantly older than his nineteen years, “that I’d do almost anything with you.”

Landon laughed. “Well, you don’t look it. You stand out, Rose.”

kill me dead

“She didn’t catch Landon’s reaction because she wasn’t doing it for him, and couldn’t have known that years later over a glass of wine Landon would stare at her with an intensity that made her dizzy and tell her in excruciating detail how that moment changed the trajectory of his life.”

GOD