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“To ensure a lasting relationship, it is imperative to become friends before lovers. You cannot proceed backward, from lovers to friends, unless there are no longer any feelings or emotions left to deal with — once you cross that line, it’s difficult to go back.”

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“The heart is that without which you would not be you, your, how you say… essence, that which is real, which does not change. The essence of honey is sweetness, yes? Its heart is sweet. The essence of self is love, more pure than the purest honey. The essence is the heart, the innermost, beyond which there is no whicher. It knows not the future, nor the past. It knows the eternal now alone. It is complete.”

“Yêu không phải là thương. Yêu là còn đong đếm, tính toán, ràng buộc, chiếm hữu, là muốn phải thế này thế kia. Còn thương thì dịu dàng lắm. Thương như là không khí vậy, hoặc là nước lọc, chỉ tồn tại một cách lặng im nhưng không bao giờ biến đổi, quen thuộc tới nỗi đôi lúc con người quên rằng phải có không khí thì họ mới hít thở được, phải có nước lọc thì họ mới không bị kiệt sức. Thương nhau để đó, không phải dành cho những người ích kỉ tham lam. Không phải dành cho người muốn giữ người khác bên cạnh để làm phao cứu sinh hoặc khi cần thì sẽ gặp. Đó là tình cảm cao quý và bao dung nhất. Là thứ tình yêu mà dù có đau đớn đến mấy, ta vẫn yên lòng mỉm cười ngắm nhìn người ta thương có một cuộc sống an lành và hạnh phúc, dù hạnh phúc đó không dành cho ta.”

“When we get married, we promise a person the rest of our lives, "Til death do us part". But what if in another life we promised someone forever? What if ten lifetimes ago we promised someone lifetime after lifetime after lifetime? Think about it. Maybe that's why marriages fail when they do fail. Because maybe promises are never really broken.”

“Rather later, she would attempt to pinpoint an exact moment when it happened, and she never had much luck with that—maybe it was months earlier, when he appeared on her front porch in his stupid hat, or on the platform on that wretched September 1st, or maybe it was long ago, in some unrecognizable, ever-­changing form, but whenever she thought about the matter in the months and years to come, she knew with absolute certainty that it happened no later than this moment. Possibly Lily did not fall in love with James Potter that night, but, she would later conclude, there was no time after it that she did not love him.”