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“What part of America are you from?” I give a short, sharp laugh. “The worst part.” “Ah,” Gavin says, knowingly. “You must be from Florida.”
“Those two are like … binary stars,” I say. “Gravitationally bound to each other. Orbiting around their own common center of mass. They don’t really need anyone else.” “It’s beautiful and terrifying,”
nostalgia is a helluva drug.”
and I wondered if the absence of chaos was the same thing as love.
I like the idea of visiting a place where happiness is a priority.”
Diplomacy is not the first tool in my interpersonal arsenal, so I often step on people’s feelings, usually unintentionally.
feelings are terrible, and no one should have them.
You make me wild. And I don’t think I’ll ever get you out of my system.”
following arbitrary rules isn’t always the best way to go through life. Sometimes you need to make your own rules.
knows she’s not allowed to start a fight with anyone for any reason,” he told the principal. “But if someone picks a fight with my daughter, she has my explicit permission to finish it.”
we humans like keeping tangible reminders of intangible moments,”
it’s good to have some keepsakes, but it’s important to know which of them are emotional anchors. Those you can let go.”
“There isn’t just one kind of family, you know? There’s the people you find along the way.
“You are smart, independent, and cool as all hell, despite my fucked-up efforts at raising you,”
“There has never been a time when I haven’t been proud of you, but watching you figure your shit out … I’ve never been prouder.”
“Even when you’re gone from my mind, you will always be here.”
“You’re very wise,” I say. “Like if Yoda and Dolly Parton had a baby.” “That would be one weird baby.” “Exactly.”
It was always a good time, but I wish it had been a longer time.
now is the perfect time to be happy. That every moment is the perfect time to be happy.
There’s a quote attributed to Mark Twain that goes, I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
