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‘And no one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.’ - Aza

‘I, a singular proper noun, would go on, if always in a conditional sense.’ - Aza

‘...and in writing it down you realize, love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift.
You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.’ - Aza

‘...and in writing it down you realize, love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift.
You remember your first love because they show you, prove to you, that you can love and be loved, that nothing in this world is deserved except for love, that love is both how you become a person, and why.’ - Aza

‘ I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other - maybe we never said it, and maybe love was never something we were in, but it was something I felt. I loved him, and I thought, maybe I will never see him again, and I’ll be stuck missing him, and isn’t that so terrible.’ - Aza

‘I kept checking my phone, waiting for him to reply, but slowly I understood that we were going to be part of each other’s past. I still missed him, though.’ - Aza

‘I get that nothing lasts. But why do I have to miss everybody so much?’ - Davis

“The problem with happy endings is that they’re either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some things get better and some things get worse. And then eventually you die.” - Aza

‘In the best conversations, you don’t even remember what you talked about, only how it felt.’ - Davis

“All I want in this world is to keep you. Keep you from hurt, keep you from stress, all that.” - Azas Mother