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“And I'm not sure I ever will recover from what Mr. Knoll did. Not fully. It's changed me forever, but changed doesn't have to mean broken.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Girl Made of Stars

“Hate ricochets, but kindness does too.”
― Robin Roe, A List of Cages

“It's strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said and did was beautiful or entertaining or important. How much you mattered”
― Robin Roe, A List of Cages

“I'll never understand how time can make a moment feel as close as yesterday and as far as years.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“People are complicated puzzles, always trying to piece together a complete picture, but sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes we’re left unfinished. Sometimes that’s for the best. Some pieces can’t be forced into a puzzle, or at least they shouldn’t be, because they won’t make sense.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“History is nothing. It can be recycled or thrown away completely. It isn’t this sacred treasure chest I mistook it to be. We were something, but history isn’t enough to keep something alive forever.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“There’s nothing wrong with someone saving my life, I’ve realized, especially when I can’t trust myself to get the job done right. People need people. That’s that.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“I was in love and love died and the pain you've left isn't pain I can see myself having the strength to face again.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“But maybe people should be kind without reason.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“When someone makes you happy, it's pretty impossible to cage the excitement.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“I'm so happy you were my first, Theo, and you were worth all the heartache.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who think words will make me feel better.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“History remains with the people who will appreciate it most.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“We were something, but history isn’t enough to keep something alive forever.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“Alternate universe idea: Theo and I are living together in a huge house overflowing with hats because I bought him a new one every day to get him to stay.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“Even if I only got to spend that first drive to the planetarium with Theo, he broke me in a way everyone should be lucky to be cracked open at least once. I had the privilege of being destroyed by him until we found a better, real me inside of the person I was pretending to be.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“Kneel before the king, Griff." I look around for the king. "Me, asshole. I'm the king. Who else would be the king? Wade?"
[...]
"On this rainy Thursday, I, King Theo of New York City, praise you, Sir Griffin of New York City, for your vast knowledge of fantasy novels I"ll never take the time to read myself. And for having the kind of laugh that I like hearing so much I would punch myself over and over if you found it funny.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“If I’m going to have any chance of getting through today, tomorrow, and all the days that follow, I think I need to go back to the start, where we were two boys bonding over jigsaw puzzles and falling in love.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me

“She was unstoppable. Not because she did not have failures or doubts, bit because she continued on despite them.”
― Beau Taplin

“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”
― Beau Taplin

“The boy with no direction taught me something unforgettable: happiness comes again if you let it.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“I've become this happiness scavenger who picks away at the ugliness of the world, because if there's happiness tucked away in my tragedies, I'll find it no matter what. If the blind can find joy in music, and the deaf can discover it with colors, I will do my best to always find the sun in the darkness because my life isn't one sad ending—it's a series of endless happy beginnings.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“I realize I'm crying a little, too. I remember. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“I’m more happy than not.

Don’t forget me.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“We all make mistakes... but it's also a step in the right direction. If nothing else it's a step away from the wrong one.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“You didn't have to take my side.'
I kind of, sort of, definitely always will.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“Happiness shouldn’t be this hard.”
― Adam Silvera, More Happy Than Not

“I'm sorry, but please don't be mad at me for reliving all of it. History is all you left me.”
― Adam Silvera, History Is All You Left Me