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I always felt like...if I stayed in one place too long, everyone would see that I'm too much. Even you. So one week a year with you...it was safe. It's all I thought that I could have. But I love you. I'm always gonna love you. So there's not one thing in my whole life that I wouldn't give up...to build something new with you. Because...when I'm sad or sick...you're all I want. And when I'm happy, you make me so much happier. And I know I have a lot of things I gotta figure out, but if there's one thing that I know, it's that wherever you are in the world, that's where I belong. You're not a vacation to me, Alex. You're home. And I think that I'm that for you too.

I'd wanted so badly to escape myself, my life, that I forgot about all the beautiful little pieces of it I've been acquiring like sea glass these last few months. Things that no one can take from me.

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“are you saying i can come home?” “i’m saying,” he murmurs softly, “it’s not home unless you’re there.”

“sunlight, everywhere. not just on my bare shoulders or the crown of my head but inside me too, the irresistible warmth that comes only from being in the exact right place with the exact right people.”

HAPPY PLACE by Emily Henry

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I hope this book carries you somewhere magical. I hope it lest you feel ocean breezes in your hair and smell spilled bear on a karaoke bar’s floor. And then I hope it brings you back. That it brings you home, and it fills you with ferocious gratitude for the people you love. Because, really, it’s less about the places we go than the people we meet along the way. But most of all, it’s about the ones who stay, who become home.