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" All I knew was that I'd finally found the right words.
I wanted to spend the rest of my life saying them."

"Maybe nobody else in the world agreed. Maybe we were unreliable sources now; maybe that was what it meant to be in love."

“Something doesn’t have to last forever to matter.”

“I could have looked back through the messages we’d sent, brushed hands with the ghost of what she’d felt for me.”

“None of it was real. I had invented the person I’d been falling for.”

“Kissing was not supposed to feel this way, I wasn't seventeen, but when I breathed in, his scent seemed to fill me, that rich, sweet smell, almond and amber, intensifying this sensation like hunger.”

“This was different, this spiky, erratic feeling that had me distracted at work, that had me losing track of paragraphs halfway through a book, that had me staring into the darkness beyond the subway windows and thinking about the sight of him, messy-haired, in his apartment doorway.”

“ I was the one who was going to have to speak with him for an hour, trying to ignore my own inevitable reactions to the sound of his voice”

“because whatever he gave me still felt better than nothing.”

" I'd never loved anything without twisting it into knots."