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"love is not a tragedy or a failure, but a gift"

"to be alive is to be missing"

"You pick your endings, and your beginnings. You get to pick the frame.... Maybe you don't choose what's in the picture, but you decide on the frame."

" 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."

"" You're everything, everything, everything, " & I felt that I was. You're both fire & the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, & the sidekick. You're the storyteller & the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also you."

"Life is a series of choices between wonders"

"every loss is unprecedented. You can't ever know someone else's hurt, not really - just like touching someone else's body isn't the same as having someone else's body."

"I wondered why I wanted him to kiss me, and how to know why you want to be with someone, how to disentangle the messy knots of wanting"

"It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see"