Gayle Forman - Just One Year (2013)

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Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.

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Do you do that a lot? Move on?" "Maybe. But only because I travel a lot." She taps put a beat on the steering wheel, audible only to herseld. "Or maybe you travel a lot because it lets you move on." "Perhaps."........ I look out the window. The jungle is everywhere. I look back at her. "Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

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It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it". Willem

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Because you don't ever find things when you're looking for them. You find them when you're not. If that were true, nobody would ever find their keys.

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I've since come to understand that the universe operates on the same general equilibrium theory as markets.It never gives you something without making you pay for it somehow.

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And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.

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But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.

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Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.

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Love is not something you protect. It's something you risk.

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I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.

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So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid? No. The wind just blew me here. What? Like a plastic bag? I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.

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Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.

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Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.

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You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

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