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“It’s never pathetic to love someone, and it’s certainly not pathetic to mourn them.”
“I’ll always find you,” he said. “In any multitude. In any lifetime.” The promise felt like a vow.
sometimes the hardest thing to do in life was just to live.
My life’s work has been about seeing the world as it is. Not how we want it to be or wish it to be, but how it really
“Freedom,” she said, “is hard for some people. I suppose it’s hard for most people. Life is easier when there’s someone above you telling you what to do.”
“No one is afraid,” she said. “Because no one ever thinks it’s going to be them.”
Loving her made him want to be a better person, and all the things that once frightened him now seemed insignificant.
The truest freedom, she realized, is not to be aware of how free one is.
But a life spent wishing things were different . . . isn’t a life.”
You can’t fight fate.”
That there was a limit to how much one person can love another without smothering the other?
Vengeance takes its toll on the vengeful.
The existence of a multiverse was a hollow discovery without a world in which they were together.
Their light—hundreds, thousands of years old—winks down on him.
For each one, he imagines a universe populated with an almost countless congregation of souls. He thinks of their lives and their deaths, their hopes and dreams, their crushing losses and disappointments. Some will die without ever having made a mark upon their world. Others will conjure breathtaking works of art—plays, songs, paintings, poems, symphonies—from nothing. Like Jonas, a select few will give birth to insights that will challenge their very perception of reality. All will experience the exquisite torture, the brutal blessing, of what it means to be human. Each of these lives is its
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