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"You get one life. Why do you mant to live it for someone else?"

"His stillness transports him somewhere beyond reason and action and language. He trusts that what unfolds has a purpose, even if he cannot see it."

"Perhaps disappointment is the price of hope."

"The story ends when there is nothing more to strive after. There is no more wanting."

"He learns to leave behind what he has left behind."

"Eventually, she wonders herself into the realization that answers won’t change what’s been done."

"You have to carry your regrets until you’ve made peace with them. Only then can you lay them down."

"Hearing the words aloud has solidified the reality."

"She loves her reading, it’s like traveling through space and time."

"No matter what he decides, it will be both a blessing and a curse."

"Where there is fear, there is also opportunity."

"With her, he can let down his guards because he is with someone who, in her ignorance, her innocence, offers safety."

"He pushes away the memories. If he looks at them, he’ll see how big his sorrows are."

"There is, in her expression, the kind of light that could lift him."

"Despite everything, she insists on adding brightness and beauty."

"An object can hold on to memories and stories in a way that people, that generations, cannot."

"Her independence has been too hard won to relinquish to some man."

"They have been one another's only constant. When everything else was uncertain, they found certainty in each other."

"To tell a story, he realises, is to plant a seed and let it grow."

"She has always believed that eventually, everything would be okay."

"Although he is dead, he is not gone."

"Within every misfortune there is a blessing, and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune. And so it goes, until the end of time."

"She was frightened, but she was also determined. These two feelings always go hand in hand!"