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Love and Other Unknown Variables

by Shannon Lee Alexander · 2014

Charlie Hanson has a clear vision of his future. A senior at Brighton School of Mathematics and Science, he knows he’ll graduate, go to MIT, and inevitably discover solutions to the universe’s greatest unanswered questions.… more

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Scientifically, I know beginnings don't exist. The world is made of energy, which is neither created or destroyed. Everything she is was here before me. Everything she was will remain. Her existence touches both my past and my future at one point- infinity. Lifelines aren't lines at all. They are more like circles. Its safe to start anywhere and the story will curve its way back to the starting point. Eventually. In other words, it doesn't matter where I begin. It doesn't change the end.
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Simply put: time is fluid. The faster your world spins out of control, the slower timer crawls. The more time you need, the less you're sure to get. It's all relative
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It doesn't take much hope to infect a person. Hope is worse than vampire venom. It takes hold and changes a person. Fast.
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Please don't confuse love and logic ... They aren't even remotely related.
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I'll either find a way or make one.
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Sometimes life is like that, you know. It smacks us when we’re down. The brave get back up. At least, they do in the books.
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How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?” —Albert Einstein
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In the olden days, people thought time was a constant. It could not be slowed or sped up. Time was time, and no man could move it. Then Einstein said, Bullshit.
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Perception is a powerful tool.
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The thought of kissing Charlotte again makes me feel like I’m being sucked away into the vacuum of space. Which, if you’re wondering, is painful and scary and leaves me almost breathless.
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I'm kind of in love with the idea that kindred spirits stay connected no matter the distance between them.
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Lifelines aren’t lines at all. They’re more like circles. It’s safe to start anywhere and the story will curve its way back to the starting point. Eventually. In other words, it doesn’t matter where I begin. It doesn’t change the end.
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What are we supposed to do now?" "Be brave," she whispers
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Charlotte told me that afternoon. It sucked, but we weren’t as close then, so it didn’t suck as much. I didn’t know then, you know?” “Know what?” “What it meant to have a friend—that having a friend would change me, make me a better person—make me more real. How was I to know?
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It's not enough to be your best. You need to be someone else's best, too.
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You're stronger than you think. If you want to fall in love, then fall.
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It's mathematically impossible to reach infinity. Every step toward it gets us no closer. In the end, all we've done is move farther from where we bagan.
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In other words, it doesn’t matter where I begin. It doesn’t change the end.
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Scientifically, I know beginnings don’t exist. The world is made of energy, which is neither created nor destroyed. Everything she is was here before me. Everything she was will remain. Her existence touches both my past and my future at one point—infinity. Lifelines aren’t lines at all. They’re more like circles. It’s safe to start anywhere and the story will curve its way back to the starting point. Eventually. In other words, it doesn’t matter where I begin. It doesn’t change the end.
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It what looks like the facts of the matter are conflicting with your feelings, then you need more information before deciding.

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Charlie Hanson has a clear vision of his future. A senior at Brighton School of Mathematics and Science, he knows he’ll graduate, go to MIT, and inevitably discover solutions to the universe’s greatest unanswered questions. He’s that smart. But Charlie’s future blurs the moment he reaches out to touch the tattoo on a beautiful girl’s neck.

The future has never seemed very kind to Charlotte Finch, so she’s counting on the present. She’s not impressed by the strange boy at the donut shop—until she learns he’s a student at Brighton where her sister has just taken a job as the English teacher. With her encouragement, Charlie orchestrates the most effective prank campaign in Brighton history. But, in doing so, he puts his own future in jeopardy.

By the time he learns she's ill—and that the pranks were a way to distract Ms. Finch from Charlotte’s illness—Charlotte’s gravitational pull

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First published
2014
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3.96 (2k ratings)

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