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So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi

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You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.

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And that infinitesimal change ripples outward -- even smaller but everlasting. I will get forgotten, but the stories will last. And so we all matter -...more

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I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to ...more

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That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.

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There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed oka...more

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I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the wh...more

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You can't just make me different and then leave

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That’s the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

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You get all these friends when just when you don't need friends anymore.

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You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

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The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess.

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im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

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(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water'...more

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Grief does not change you. It reveals you.