Instructions for Dancing

by Nicola Yoon

That love stories are like fairy tales: you’re not meant to believe in them forever.

Happiness is tricky. Sometimes you have to fight for it. Sometimes, though—the best times—it sneaks up behind you, wraps an arm around your waist and pulls you close.

Maybe the whole point of love is to make more of itself. I try to fall asleep

I don’t know why we lose the people we love and how we’re expected to go on after we lose them. But I know that to love is human. We can’t help ourselves. The philosopher-poets say love is the answer, but it’s more than that. Love is the question and the answer and the reason to ask in the first place. It’s everything. All of it.”

The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t.

life when your parent becomes more than just a parent and becomes a real person. They never said how scary that moment would be. And wonderful too.