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“You’re incredibly gifted, Sam. But it is worth noting that to be good at something is not quite the same as loving it.”
What does love even mean when you can find it with so many people and things?”
it occurred to Sadie that nothing in life was as solid-state as it appeared.
there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn’t chosen.
You try again. You fail better.”
I don’t want to love more than I am loved. And I don’t want to be with someone who loves something or someone more than me.”
It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”
What was a gate anyway? A doorway, she thought. A portal. The possibility of a different world. The possibility that you might walk through the door and reinvent yourself as something better than you had been before.
“Your cousin Albert told me that, in business, they call this a pivot. But life is filled with them, too. The most successful people are also the most able to change their mindsets.
know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.
How much of your life had been happenstance? How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky? But then, weren’t all lives that way? Who could say, in the end, that they had chosen any of it?
There are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”
“And what is love, in the end?” Alabaster said. “Except the irrational desire to put evolutionary competitiveness aside in order to ease someone else’s journey through life?”
