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“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can’t ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it’s already happened.” —Douglas Coupland

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Three Words from The Lover’s Dictionary

1. Yearning, n. and adj.

At the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

2. Abstraction, n.

Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn’t you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren’t yours. It’s not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead.

3. Ubiquitous, adj.

When it’s going well, the fact of it is everywhere. It’s there in the song that shuffles into your ears. It’s there in the book you’re reading. It’s there on the shelves of the store as you reach for a towel and forget about the towel. It’s there as you open the door. As you stare off into the subway, it’s what you’re looking at. You wear it on the inside of your hat. It lines your pockets. It’s the temperature. The hitch, of course, it that when it’s going badly, it’s in all the same places.

Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

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“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.” —Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

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“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.” —Lemony Snicket

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“If you do find the courage to stare down your demons, to look the fear that plagues you right in the eye, what do you do when those demons stare right back at you and the fear is so bad you can taste it? When it overwhelms you and threatens to paralyze you, you have to make a choice. Give up, or crawl into a hole and wait to die, or fight and make a stand. No matter how long the odds are. That’s when you find out what you’re made of - if it really was courage that led you here. Because facing that fear and fighting it, no matter what the final outcome may be, whether you win or lose, live or die, you’re finally free.” —Joe Brusha, Jean-Paul Deshong, and Jason Embury (Grimm Fairy Tales Present: Neverland)

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“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that’s where I imagine it - there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own private library.” —Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“One big unicorn, strong and free, thought he was happy as he could be. Then three little kittens came around and turned his whole life upside down. They made him laugh, they made him cry. He never should have said goodbye. And now he knows he can never part from those three little kittens that changed his heart.” —Despicable Me

“In life, maybe you do eventually find love, but it’s not with your high school boyfriend. It’s with a completely different person whom you never even met before - someone who didn’t figure into the first part of the story at all. In life, there’s no happily-ever-after-into-the-sunset. There’s a marriage, complete with arguments, bad hair, lost hair, mentally unstable children, weird diets, dogs that fur up the couch, not enough money.” —E. Lockhart - The Treasure Map of Boys

“Let me be honest back, then, she said. You don’t know how it is to like someone for a long time. To keep thinking he might like you back, and thinking he might like you back, and never being sure. Every day you think something might happen. Every day you tell yourself, probably not - but maybe. And then every day it doesn’t. It’s hard.” —E. Lockhart - The Treasure Map of Boys

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