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"You could have walked past the hole, if you wanted. You didn’t have to stay between the pin and where you started. You’re not in the box. Look at this whole giant field . . ." Passion flickered in her green eyes and he couldn’t help but feel an answering spark inside himself. "Don’t limit yourself. Don’t live in a stressful little box. Go as far as you want. That was the point."

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There’s rainwater in these veins instead of blood.

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If you’re expecting your partner to change, you may not be in the right relationship.

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Love means letting go of your pride, after all.

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And it’s not about feminism, and it’s not about men and women, it’s just a fact about life. Loads of people aren’t happy until they’re in a relationship. Happiness, for them, is being in a partnership.

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And as for the relationship… It's not that you urgently need another person, but that you need their presence in your life.

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In the end, we can only try our best. Strive for something new every day. Unfortunately, what happens is not always in our hands.

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The storm was over, and the sun was shining in the sky again.

The sun was lying in bed next to me.

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And it doesn’t matter that his namesake constellation is only visible in Australia or New Zealand in June. I’m here, in his hemisphere. I find Orion anyway.

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But all I ask — the next time you have to put up a wall, just let me be on your side of the bricks.

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A hero with serious flaws and even weaknesses . . . could still be a hero. A person could only be brave if failing was a possibility.

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When you care about someone, you want to be inconvenienced - you wouldn't mind being inconvenienced by them every day for the rest of your life. That's what love is. That's all love really is.

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It’s the very fact that it’s finite that makes traveling special. You could move to any one of those destinations you loved in small doses, and it wouldn’t be the spellbinding, life-altering seven days you spent there as a guest, letting a place into your heart fully, letting it change you.

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"You don’t have to tell me," he said. "But just so you know … you can."

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He told me once that sometimes, with some people, it’s not about winning or losing. That with some people, it’s just about playing.

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I am finally accepting that I am simply nobody else but myself. I will always only be me. A little bit naïve, a lot idealistic. In the regard of many, understated to the point of forgettable, and easy prey, because my heart is so large a target. But those who deserve to be in my circle will like me just as I am, and will treat me the way I deserve to be treated.