“If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you.”
“I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.”
“The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.”
“If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.”
“Nobody gets to pick what life gives them”
“Life went on whether people participated in it or not”
“I'll never take it for granted again. I'll always be grateful for every spring that comes along.”
“You're going to live your life. You're going to honor him doing things you would have done if he'd never gotten sick and died”
“He doesn't teach you what to think, he teaches you how to think”
“When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully”
“He doesn't teach you what to think. He teaches you how to think.”
“The certitude that everything has been written negates us or turns us into phantoms. I know of districts in which the young men prostrate themselves before books and kiss their pages in a barbarous manner, but they do not know how to decipher a single letter. Epidemics, heretical conflicts, peregrinations which inevitably degenerate into banditry, have decimated the population. I believe I have mentioned suicides, more and more frequent with the years. Perhaps my old age and fearfulness deceive me, but I suspect that the human species -- the unique species -- is about to be extinguished, but the Library will endure: illuminated, solitary, infinite, perfectly motionless, equipped with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret.”
“1. Boys will lie, cheat, and steal to get into your pants. A man will stand the test of time. Make him wait, and you’ll see which one he is. 2. They will try to tell you that it feels better without a condom. You just tell me where they live. 3. And relationships are supposed to make your life better. You don’t drag each other down. You hold each other”
“We are built to walk. Not to SoulCycle and jog and hike. Walking is mental. You sharpen your thoughts and process your emotions.”
“I wonder – if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?”
“Yes, I think it is entirely possible to fall in love with someone you've never met. Physicality is an expression of intimacy- not an indication of it.”
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