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How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

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Gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

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Underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.

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Hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

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Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.

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I find I very rarely live up to my words. And since you know me primarily through my words, there are oh so many ways I can disappoint.

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Breathing is hard. When you cry so much, it makes you realize that breathing is hard.

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I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

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You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?" Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes." "Not Coffee it is, then." "Yes, Not Coffee.

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To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.

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The assumption of the word reunion is that, once you're together again, you are united. Two as one. Pulling close to someone is only a temporary symbol. It's the way you breathe with each other that's the telltale sign.

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What's the big deal with France? How come everyone wants to go there? Let me tell you about France. Their music sucks. Their movies suck. Their berets suck. Their croissants are pretty good, but the place overall still sucks.My family went there once on the way to visit Dad's homeland family. EuroDisney. Need I say more?

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The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

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With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.

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It was one of those moments when you feel the future so much that it humbles the present.

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There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

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Breathing, n You had asthma as a child, had to carry around an inhaler. But when you grew older, it went away. You could run for miles and it was fine. Sometimes I worry that this is happening to me in reverse. The older I get, the more I lose my ability to breathe.

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With some people, the minute you start talking, it feels like you've known them for years. It only means that you were supposed to meet sooner. You're feeling all the time you should have known each other, but didn't. That time still counts. You can definitely feel it.

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Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

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There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched or adhered. It holds on because it fits.

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There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

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Dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.

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I know there are epic tales of romance, where love means you're supposed to die. Where it's all about sacrifice. But I don't want to die. I don't want Stephen to die. I'm looking for the scenario where we both get to live. Where we can continue this marvel that is love and discovery and trust.

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And I told you: I think of a photograph you took of me, up in Montreal. You told me to jump in the air, so in the picture, my feet are off the ground. Later, I asked you why you wanted me to do that, and you told me it was the only way to get me to forget about the expression on my face. You were right. I am completely unposed, completely genuine. In my mind's eye, I picture myself like that, reacting to you.

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Me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

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I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.

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And I find myself saying, It wasn't really about her. And finding it's true. What do you mean? Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.

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I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

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I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't realize you're on the floor.

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There's no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it's in a flash or long after you've begged it to stop.

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