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We never talked much, or even looked at each other, but it didn’t matter, because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe more intimate than eye contact anyway. Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains—flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits.”

I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.

“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but it’s the way you live your life that matters”

If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.

As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?

In all the years I’ve known him, there’s always been exactly one place Simon wanted to be, and he’s always fought like hell to make sure he got there and stayed there.” “Where’s that?” “Wherever you were.

“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.”