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Life is one long series of punches to the gut. You either learn how to duck, or you figure out how to hit back.
“My point is, you can’t see it all. You have to pick and choose. Prioritize the places you want to visit, the way you want to spend your limited days on this earth. Life’s too damn short to waste it with people who don’t make you happy, in places that don’t excite you, doing things that don’t challenge you.”
“Like everyone in Boston, I’m a lapsed Catholic.”
“Change is scary. I get that. But you’re not required to be the same person you were ten years ago, ten weeks ago, ten days ago. Hell, you don’t even have to be the person you were ten minutes ago. You’re free to be whoever the hell you want, Zoe Bloom.”
“You’re the first person I’ve ever met who makes me feel that rush while I’m standing still. Looking at you, I don’t need to chase some crazy whim. You…” He shakes his head, as if he can’t believe he’s saying this shit out loud. “You’re a huge adventure in a five foot, hundred pound package.”
I don’t care how much you love someone’s personality, their sense of humor, their compassion, their every redeemable quality… if you don’t want to tear their clothes off, at the end of the day it’s never going to work out. Without that fundamental attraction, two people can’t last.
“You don’t fall in love with a bird and stick her in a cage. You let her fly free and hope like hell she comes back to you.”
“If you live your life afraid of all the bad things that might happen, you’ll miss out on all the good ones that definitely will.”
“Never say goodbye,” he whispers, his voice shaky as he reads from the book in his lap. “Because goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting.”
“You walk through life with this lightness inside you. It shines like a beacon. Your laugh, your sense of humor, the way you see the world… You remind me that there’s still goodness and kindness out there. Even though you have your own slew of reasons to be bitter or negative… you always see the light.” My voice gets thick with emotion. “And when you share that light with me, it makes me feel like… maybe I don’t have to live in the shadows anymore.”
Change is scary. But you’re not required to be the same person you were ten years ago, ten weeks ago, ten days ago. Hell, you don’t even have to be the person you were ten minutes ago. You’re free to be whoever the hell you want.
