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"A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane."

"A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes like a broken plane."

"We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have."

"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy."

"I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost. I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing."

"I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost. I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing."

"People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone."

"The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real."

"...because one does not have to understand how it works or what it means in order to think that it looks sort of beautiful."

"What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"

"What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?"

"One only understands the things that one tames. Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more."

"I must endure the presence of 2 or 3 caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."

"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful."

"Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory."

"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I'm in love with you."

"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I'm in love with you."

"No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around."

"I’m not different, not
at all, not different from any other speck of a thing. I’m a
blemished blemish, a ruined ruin, a stained wreck so failed
I can’t see what I used to be. I’m nothing, not a single thing."