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400 pages, Hardcover
First published June 27, 2023
鈥渋 loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you鈥檝e never visited, and people you鈥檝e never met.鈥�
鈥渘othing lasts forever. not the good things, not the bad. so just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.鈥�
鈥測ou only live once. and if you do
it right, once is all you need.鈥�
鈥淚sn鈥檛 it strange how the world works sometimes? It鈥檚 never a matter of time, but a matter of timing.鈥�
鈥淚 loved how a book, a story, a set of words in a sentence organized in the exact right order, made you miss places you鈥檝e never visited, and people you鈥檝e never met.鈥�
鈥淣othing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.鈥�
鈥淵ou only live once. And if you do it right, once is all you need.鈥�
鈥淪ometimes the people you loved left you halfway through a story. Sometimes they left without a goodbye. And, sometimes, they stayed around in little ways.鈥�
鈥淚f you don鈥檛 fit in, fool everyone until you do.鈥�
鈥淭here was something just so reassuring about books. They had beginnings and middles and ends, and if you didn鈥檛 like a part, you could skip to the next chapter. If someone died, you could stop on the last page before, and they鈥檇 live on forever. Happy endings were definite, evils defeated, and the good lasted forever.鈥�
鈥淚 didn鈥檛 need to be fixed. I just needed... to be reminded that I was human.鈥�
鈥淏ecause the things that mattered most never really left. The love stays. The love always stays, and so do we.鈥�
鈥淣ew things are scary.鈥�
鈥淭hey don鈥檛 have to be.鈥�
鈥淗ow are they not?鈥�
鈥淏ecause some of my favorite things I haven鈥檛 even done yet.鈥�
鈥淪ometimes the people you loved left you halfway though a story. Sometimes they left you without a goodbye. And, sometimes, they stay around in the little ways. In the memory of a musical. In the smell of their perfume. In the sound of the rain, and the itch for adventure, and the yearning for that liminal space between one airport terminal and next.鈥�
鈥淚sn't it strange how the world works sometimes? It鈥檚 never a matter of time, but a matter of timing."
"Sometimes the people you loved left you halfway through a story. Sometimes they left you without a goodbye. And, sometimes, they stayed around in little ways."
"I didn't need to be fixed. I just needed...to be reminded that I was human."
鈥淣othing lasts forever. Not the good things, not the bad. So just find what makes you happy, and do it for as long as you can.鈥�
"He was an adventure. One I suddenly knew I wanted to take."
"That was love, wasn鈥檛 it? It wasn鈥檛 just a quick drop鈥攊t was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new breath. It was uncertain and it was undeniably hard, and it wasn鈥檛 something you could plan for. Love was an invitation into the wild unknown, one step at a time together."
"Isn't it strange how the world works sometimes? It's never a matter of time, but a matter of timing."
鈥淭hat was love, wasn鈥檛 it? it wasn鈥檛 just a quick drop鈥攊t was falling, over and one again, for your person. it was falling as they became new people, it was learning how to exist with new breath. it was uncertain and it was undeniable hard and it wasn鈥檛 something you could plan for.鈥�
鈥渉e always says food brings people together, and that鈥檚 really what i love about it.鈥�
鈥溾€ike someone waiting to be asked. you can just dance, Lemon. You can take the lead.
and you鈥檒l follow?
to the moon and back.鈥�