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There weren't enough tears to cry.

It was like someone had turned off the sun. The center of everything was suddenly gone.

There sometimes isn't much difference between a knight's quest and a fool's errand. - Drew

I stretched up to him, and we stayed liken that for just a second, not kissing, not yet, just hovering in the moment before, only a breath apart.

maybe Lucy was wrong - maybe sometimes there was such a thing as perfect moment.

life is sad.......when you are living it alone.

I'd always hated any kind of peanut butter candy. Peanut butter, in my opinion, belonged in sandwiches and nowhere else.

You don't have to go away to know where your home is.

I looked like someone who'd had a night, and had a story to tell about it.

Because believing you're not alone is the cruelest trick of all.

Once, I dared to dare greatly.

You get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it.

Roger: "God, I've been wanting to do that for a long time."
Amy: "Really"
Roger: "Oh yes. Since Kansas. At least.

And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone.

It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.

It's always a risk. Wherever there is great emotion. because there is power in that. And few people handle power well.

Roger, he has a chain saw, I hissed
I am not going to die in Kentucky!

I hope there's a God, I know there's an Elvis.

We can't know what's going to happen. We can just try to figure it out as we go along.
- Roger Sullivan

E had his face turned up to the sky and I watched him, rather than the fireworks.

And how was your day? ... Did you do great things?

I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

Did you ever have a night that just ... seemed to change everything? And everything is different afterward?

I'm so sorry-I broke you moose?

If you like everything, that's basically just saying that you don't really like anything.

A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.

We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again

If Frank and I tried to be something, it would be *real*, in a way that was scary - but also really exciting -Emily

I climbed on my bike and headed down Main Street, noticing that puddles were already starting to form on the pavement.

I leaned forward to kiss him again, knowing as I did that something was ending while something else had already begun.

You + Me
saw this ...
AMERICA
Thank you for finding America with me

I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once.

And it was a kiss that felt like it could stop time.

Or maybe I hadn't. Maybe I'd just been waiting for this moment, right now.

In a well-ordered universe...

All the stuff you can't wait to get away from, until it's not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.

Now that we were under a little bit of shelter, I could see how gorgeous the woods were in the storm.

Sloane got strangely competitive when there were stuffed-animal prizes involved).

Things felt strange and tentative between us, in a way they never had.

But you can't help who you fall for. The heart wants what it wants.

Knowing that each breath was another moment he was still here and, simultaneously, that meant that he had just moved a little closer to being gone.

(And believe me, you don't want me to be unhappy. I may be looking into the haunting thing right now.)

I blinked them back, hard. I had a feeling that if I let myself start crying, there was a very real possibility I would never stop again.

It just gets hard, always being someone's second choice

I tried to think of puns that might make my father laugh one more time, and I looked at the stars.

Then she smiled at me and said what she always did before we went out. Let's go have the best night ever.

It was kind of like what I imagined it would be like to drink a forest fire.

It was like she knew a secret, a good one, and if you got close enough, maybe she'll tell you, too.

And we were kissing like drowning people breathe
like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.

I knew in that moment that things would be forever different- that today was gong to be the day that split my life into before and after.

In a well-ordered universe ... camping would take place indoors.

It's not about the destination. It's getting there that's the good part.
- Leonard

What do you think a Chick-fil-A is? Roger asked, as we pulled off the interstate and into the parking lot.

You've got to have pride in your home. You are where you're from. Otherwise, you're always going to be lost.

Your childhood friends are the ones you should hang on to. They know you in a way that nobody else does.

Emily, I might be hallucinating," she said calmly, as she turned to me. "Because I could almost swear that was Frank Porter.

I don't think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it's the little things that are harder anyway.

But I'd taken Lucien's lead and ordered what he had, something called sweet tea.

I looked up at him, and a thought passed through my brain before I could stop or analyze it. It's you - of course it is. There you are. And

Now sounds perfect.

I know,' I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we'd ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.

Just because you'd left something behind didn't mean that it had gone anywhere.

Just like that, those butterflies I'd first felt at twelve made a reappearance.

He told me that if you yelled out "JAMBA!" at full volume, all the employees would yell back "JUICE!" He lied.

I know things might not work, and I know it's scary, but the things that are worth it are. It feels right.

I could do this. If whole galaxies could change, so could I.

And I've realized that the Beatles got it wrong. Love isn't all we need - love is all there is.

How was I supposed to keep living in this town when everything I saw reminded me of someone I'd lost?

You can always find your way out, no matter how lost you are.

There was something about being alone in places that were usually filled with people that made them seem particularly empty when it was just you.

But as long as you know your constellations, you're never lost.

That was our place. That was where we used to make out!

It seemed crazy that something so big, so seemingly permanent, could be knocked down by a little wind and rain.

Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up.

If you have to look any further than your own backyard to find your hearts desire, you never really lost it to begin with

And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.

And I was realizing that it was pretty terrible to be sitting in silence with someone who you always used to have something to say to

Oh, he said softly. It was like this wasn't even a word. It felt more like he was laying out a stone for me to step on, so that I could keep going.

Ad astra per aspera, to the stars through adversity

If you don't feel great on the inside, just look great on the outside, and after a while you won't be able to tell the difference

They didn't dwell; they looked for solutions, made some snacks, and kept moving forward.

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

He kissed me back. It lasted just a moment, but he kissed me back, right away, without hesitation, as though we'd always been doing it.

In a well-ordered universe, there would be no mysteries. You'd just know things. There wouldn't be these big, hanging questions.

Because it was clear to me now that I'd already broken something.

I waited to feel incredibly embarrassed, but the feeling didn't come. It was more like a small victory, a secret to everyone else but me.

I couldn't help but notice that he'd pronounced her name differently, like her name, and only her name, contained all the good letters.

I think there are lots of things still to be discovered. You just have to be paying attention.

Keep people at arm's length and your feelings to yourself.

It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.

I leaned closer to look at it, at all those empty squares that represented the days of summer ahead.

Something tells me we're not in Kansas anymore"
"You did not just say that

There was no In-N-Out in Connecticut, because clearly that state was an inhospitable wasteland.

4. Date someone who'll wait to make sure you get inside before driving away.

But it always felt like nothing had really happened until I'd talked to Sloane about it.

Ad astra per aspera. It's the Kansas state motto," he said to Roger and me, "To the stars through adversity

And really, it's not about the destination. It's getting there that's the good part.

If you have a gift for something, it's wrong not to work at it!

What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?

We're defined totally by our choices, even the ones we don't realize the significance of at the time.