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“And sometimes you fall in love that way, when you’re drowning in a world of pain. It’s not a happy love. It’s just whoever manages not to hurt you all the time. You think they must be the best the world has to offer. The little window of time you aren’t in pain can seem like happiness.”

Love Pain Happiness Relationships Settling Anguish

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“In America they distrust happy people.”

America Happiness Trust Being Happy Distrust Happy People

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“To lose something you never had can be just as painful—because it is the hope of having it that you lose. The hope that in this world, there are magical fish who will give you advice and warning, when really, the future is unknowable and infinitely dangerous.”

Pain Hope Loss Magic Mystery Advice Danger Future Losing Warnings

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“The kid is probably giggling like a villain. He's giving every sign that he's going to hurt her. And she is genuinely hoping he's going to play with her. It's beautiful. How badly we all want love. It's tragic. How bad we are at searching for it.”

Love Hate Hope Hurt Expectations Optimism Foolish Optimism

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“To lose something you never had can be just as painful — because it is the hope of having it that you lose.”

Hope Loss

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“Somehow, in all the world, with all the people in it, in all their wonky shapes, they were shaped to fit each other.”

Love Relationships True Love Matches

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“Most things were against the rules, so when one old lady across the hall from us fell in her shower, we couldn't do anything but steal cinder blocks from the courtyard and arrange them in her bathroom so she could sit as she washed. In situations like that, God doesn't mind stealing. Or maybe he does, but you get more positive points for helping the old lady who was so happy she cried and kissed my cheeks so hard she rubbed tears all over them. Or, wait, okay, actually, I think the point is that above all other laws is the law of love. I forgot that one for a second.”

Love Helping Religion Rules Laws Breaking Rules

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“I said to my dad, "Are you really a Christian now?" And he said, "Yes!" and laughed. "I'm your father. I am humanity. I'm everything to everybody." I didn't say anything after that. I guess that was my dad's favorite myth, that he was everything to everybody.”

Religion Beliefs Self Deception Christians Myths

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“In this life, you have winners and losers. the more you win, the higher you go.”

Winning Win Victoria

Book:Another Faust

Source: Another Faust

“I didn’t say anything to my dad. It’s not like he could do anything but talk on the phone anyway. We don’t live in the heroic age. Our separation isn’t any great poetic struggle. It’s just pain. It’s just ripping bodies apart.”

Immigration Experience Refugee Experience

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“That’s what forgetting your grandpa’s face feels like. There’s no good in it. Nothing to gain but nothing. A piece of your heart makes a sound like a groan and disappears. Then you poke at it sometimes, trying to remember what was there by the shape of the hole. That’s it. You are less.”

Memories Grandfather Refugee Experience

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“Maybe half-good is as good as it gets in this life. And maybe that's why my mom was so interested in the next one.”

Life Heaven Challenges Afterlife

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“Persians aren’t liars. They’re poets, which is worse. Poets don’t even know when they’re lying. They’re just trying to remember their dreams. They’re trying to remember six thousand years of history and all the versions of all the stories ever told.”

Stories History Dreams Lies Liars Persians

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?”

Reality Illusion Vileroy

Book:Another Faust

Source: Another Faust

“They started talking--I have no idea what about. Grownies will talk sometimes in boring words about boring ideas to groom each other like apes, to let each other know they're pals.”

Friendship Talking Adults Boring Grownups Socializing

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

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