Maybe in Another Life
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“I only threw a party so I could call you and invite you,” he said to me. “Is that stupid?”
Jillian
Omg......
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“From experience, I can tell you that if you go around trying to figure out what’s fair in life or whether you deserve something or not, that’s a rabbit hole that is hard to climb out of.”
Jillian
Periodddd
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Mark ran late at the office. He seems to run late at the office a lot or works late into the night. I would have thought that being a dentist was kind of predictable. But he always has last-minute stuff come up.
Jillian
I dknt like that
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Which means that I am here today, alive today, because I made the right choices, however brief and insignificant they felt at the time. I made the right choices.
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THATS WHAT IM SAYINGGGGGG
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I wonder if he still calls me Hannah Savannah, as if I were a child, because he really only knows me as a child. He doesn’t know me very well as an adult.
Jillian
Oh much to think about!
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In general, I find that when you are doing something you are not supposed to be doing, the best course of action is to act as if you are absolutely supposed to be doing it.
Jillian
TEA
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Which is to say that I think it’s very possible that Ethan is the one for me. But I’d rather be dead than say it out loud.
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Shes just a girl
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Nine billion choices I’ve made over the course of my life could have changed where I am right now and where I’m headed. There’s no sense focusing on just one. Unless you want to punish yourself.
Jillian
This book is speKing to me
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I believe I’m destined for something. We are all destined for something. And I believe that the universe, or God, or whatever you want to call it, I believe it keeps us on the right path.
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PREACHING TO THE CHOIR
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“Well, don’t be a pilot, either,” he says. “Or did you already cross that one off because you were hit by a plane?”
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The concept of being hit by a plane
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We can’t say what we would do in other circumstances. We can only know what we will do with the ones we face.
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Its like i wrote this book
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And there is Mark. Kissing a blond woman in a pencil skirt.
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Knew ittttttttt
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Gabby laughs. It’s a deep belly laugh. “Oh, God, Hannah,” she says. “The first time I saw it, I thought, Where’s the rest of it?”
Jillian
SCREAMINGGGG
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“Divide the pain in two,” I tell her. “And give half of it to me.”
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God thats so romantic
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“Well, I’m proud of you that you stood up today.” “I know! Before you know it, I’ll be crawling and eating solid foods.”
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HAHAHA
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“I’m not going to wait around for some man to call,” I say, teasing her. “My best friend wouldn’t stand for that.”
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Purr
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But sometimes I wish I got to decide what I was meant to do.
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Preach
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For the first time in my life, I have someone I feel like I can’t live without.” “Is it me?” Gabby says suspiciously. “Because if it’s not, this is a weird story.” “Yeah dude,” I say to her. “It’s you.” “Awww, thanks, bro!”
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How me and emmalee talk to eachother
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And maybe a month from now I won’t appreciate it the way I do right now. But that’s OK. I appreciate it now.
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Maybe one day we will end up at the same place at the same time. Maybe we’ll meet again when you aren’t my patient and I’m not your nurse. When we are just two people. If we do, I really hope you say hello. So that I can say hello back and then ask you out on a date.
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HENRYYYYYYYYY
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“Because if I’m not his soul mate, then that means he’s not mine. There’s someone else out there for me. If he found his, maybe I’ll find my own.”
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What I’m getting at here is that I know there may be universes out there where I made different choices that led me somewhere else, led me to someone else.” He looks at Gabby. “And my heart breaks for every single version of me that didn’t end up with you.”
Jillian
Ur kidding
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If Jesse is right and there are other universes out there, I’ve probably met Henry before in one of them. We might work together somewhere. Or we would have met in Texas years ago. Maybe in line for a cinnamon roll.
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CHIDI AND ELEANOR
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I’m seven months pregnant. It’s a girl. We’re naming her Isabella, after Henry’s sister. Gabby doesn’t know that we’ve talked about naming her Isabella Gabrielle, after her.
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Stop bro