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“Call me sentimental, but there’s something beautiful about anything built for one purpose that refuses to die, even once that purpose is gone.”

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“She closes the gap and renders the rest of the universe nonexistent, and as my lips part for hers, I remember that one of my earliest thoughts in this life was that kissing her might kill me, but if this takes me out, I will consider it a life well-lived.”

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“Sometimes you have to lose a few battles to win the war. -Toby Hawthorne”

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“Tell me, then, what do I want?” Jackson snorts. “A swift kick in the ass?” “The rest of me is battered and burned to a crisp. Leave my ass alone.”

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“Still, Connell went home that night and read over some notes he had been making for a new story, and he felt the old beat of pleasure in his body, like watching a perfect goal, like the rustling movement of light through leaves, a phrase of music from the window of a passing car. Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.”

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