"Why do you think you are missing something you never had?"
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club.
"And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation."
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club.
- Jenny Han, We’ll Always Have Summer.
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"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
C.S. Lewis.
"My head was level with hers as we stared at each other from opposite sides of the glass. I don’t remember how it ended - if I went to bed or she did. In my memory, it doesn’t end. We just stay there, looking at each other, forever."
John Green, Paper Towns.
"There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what."
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines.
"Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love, or somewhere you’re afraid to go. It’s gonna hurt. It’s gonna hurt because it matters."
John Green.
"When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out."
John Green, Paper Towns.
"I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once."
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars.
"So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."
John Green, Looking for Alaska.
"Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights alone, she thinks of him. Some nights these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it."
Steve Martin, Shopgirl.
"Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed your wet hair, stopped by the side of the road in the country to point out certain constellations, standing behind you so that you had the advantage of leaning and looking up?"
Nicole Krauss, Man Walks Into a Room.
"
When you are young, you think it’s going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close — as close as you can get — to another person only makes clear that impassable distance between you.
If being in love only made people more lonely, why would everyone want it so much?
Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it’s intoxicating, and for a little while you feel like you’ve actually become one with the other person. Merged souls and so on. You think you’ll never be lonely again.
"Nicole Krauss
"I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together."
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