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“Want is a kind of thief. It’s a door in your heart, and once you know it’s there, you’ll spend your life longing for whatever’s behind it.”

“This is how I used to think of love. As something so delicate it couldn’t be caught without being snuffed out. Now I know better. I know the flame may gutter and flare with the wind, but it will always be there.”

“Everything is changing. It has to. You can’t stop time. All you can do is point yourself in a direction and hope the wind will let you get there.”

“Love means constantly saying you’re sorry, and then doing better.”

“In every universe, it’s you for me. Even if it’s not me for you.”

“So I guess,” he says, “some things change and stay the same.”

“I think of the black hole documentary I watched with my dad a few years ago, how astrophysicists speculated that there were places in our universe where the rules of time and space inverted, moments becoming a place where you could stay indefinitely.”

“I’m living two separate weeks. One of them is bliss, the other torture. Sometimes they’re indistinguishable.”