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“You're allowed to love books and broken things.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Suns can’t see their own light.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Because if we chose to only love what we didn't lose, then we would never love at all.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“You really are a strange, beautiful thing.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Time is kind with grief. It takes it from you, piece by piece, till the sorrow is a song you remember the beat of but no longer hear.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“In one way or another, all first loves are lost.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“We're going to die, so what? Everyone dies and everything ends. Sometimes endings are abrupt. They hit you in the face and it's too soon and it's unfair, but that doesn't matter. The last page doesn't define the book.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“In French, you do not say you miss someone. You say they are missing from you.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Death is sudden. It has no taste for irony or reason. It doesn't wait for another tick of the metronome. It doesn't wait for goodbyes. Death is a taker, plain, direct, no tricks up its sleeve. And it will give you nothing in return but a last endless kiss for those you leave behind.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“I think the worst feeling in the world is telling someone you're in pain and hearing them say there's no wound.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“But hope is fragile. It isn't infinite.”
― Lancali, I Fell in Love With Hope

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”
― Émile Zola

“That trick you mentioned? You know, with the fingers?” A slow smile spreads across my face. “Thanks.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame