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Because it’s so much harder to love someone who’s difficult than to love someone who’s easy.
Because a person who loved you decided not to love you anymore.
“But what you want and what you get aren’t really the same thing.”
“Well, I prefer you to keep your clothes on.”
“These cows make you look like a dollhouse person.”
it meant that in one short month, I’d lost every single one of the three most important people in my life. Mother. Boyfriend. Best friend.
“It’s her dying wish,” Jack pointed out.
“She’s not dying,” I said. “She’s probably not dying.” “We’re all probably not dying. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow.”
Because certain broken things can never be repaired.”
He was faking all those feelings—but I was feeling them. Genuinely.
“Dream a Little Dream of Me.”
“I will really miss you. And I am not acting.”
“I’m pretty good at impossible things.”
“I think just because you can’t keep something doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth it. Nothing lasts forever.
“To everything we’ve lost. And to what we hold onto.”
“When you’re not around, even for a little while, I feel like I have to go find you. I just feel this pull to be near you. I want to know what you’re thinking, and what you’re up to, and how you feel. I want to take you places and show you things. I want to memorize you—to learn you like a song.
You make me laugh every single day—and nobody makes me laugh. I feel like I’ve been lost all my life until now—and somehow with you I’m just … found.”
“You,” he said then, “owe me a thousand dollars.”
Every chance you take is a choice. A choice to decide who you are.
I hated myself for being taken in. For being fooled. For wanting to be loved so badly that I’d so easily become somebody’s mark.
Except for one thing. The thing I wanted most wasn’t London anymore.
because women in this world somehow don’t deserve pockets—shoved
“You can’t make people love you. But you can give the love you long for out to the world.
You can be the love you wish you had. That’s the way to be okay. Because giving love to other people is a way of giving it to yourself.”