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“But the future can do things.”
“I’m going to try to be nostalgic about the present.”

“He loved her completely, through all time. Through the trials they had known and the unknown mess and grief and joys yet to come. And he realized what he should have always known. It was her. She was the whole point.”

“He knew also that he had potentially been given a great gift. The gift of being able to live life from the perspective or the dead.”

“Time turns houses into museums and lovers into strangers.”

“And who knows what is after all this? Who knows what chances we get?”

“The only way to learn is to live.”
“He had lost love and friendship along the way, but the bigger tragedy would have been to never have known those things at all. Life was about moments as much as it was about decades.”

“Love can feel so eternal that it can be mistaken for something that will be around forever.”

“Just try and live life like it can’t be measured.”

“But she’ll still wish it was different. She’ll still miss the old you. The one she always wanted.”

“The incredibly annoying thing about being dead was that you got all your priorities in order, just when it was too late to do anything about them.”