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Even when everything hurts, even when other cities are exploding and people we love are disappearing, there’s still space for sweet things.Corey Ann Haydu
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I want to know if we are the same, in the moments when we’re stripped bare.Corey Ann Haydu
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We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.Corey Ann Haydu
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I can’t quite figure out the difference between loving someone and loving things about them.Corey Ann Haydu
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Love is insanity, apparently.Corey Ann Haydu
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Love is something you have or don’t have. Love is like a fever.Corey Ann Haydu
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It sounds like love just sort of happens, whether you want it to or not, whether you’re married or not.Corey Ann Haydu
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Sometimes words I think are small come out big.Corey Ann Haydu
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On our own, we’d look totally normal. Together, we’re something else. Together, we’re special.Corey Ann Haydu
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We don’t smile, but we something. We something. It hurts, the way a deep connection to someone who isn’t yours sometimes does.Corey Ann Haydu
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We are LornaCruzCharlotteDelilahIsla and we aren’t afraid of love, even if we’re supposed to be.Corey Ann Haydu
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I guess I wonder what it would be like, to be living their live instead of mine.Corey Ann Haydu
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Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city.Corey Ann Haydu
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Like Christmas trees and Easter egg hunts and the block party on the last day of summer, we do things because traditions feel cozy and safe.Corey Ann Haydu
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It’s incredible how small the English language gets when you’re trying to make it fix something.Corey Ann Haydu
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I hate the way the world feels when love is goneCorey Ann Haydu
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Death always feels far away from life, until it isn’t.Corey Ann Haydu
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Everyone else’s Minute of remembering is over, but ours stretches on and on. It doesn’tend.Corey Ann Haydu
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This is another awful truth of losing people you love: everyone needs something different. And the needs almost never match up.Corey Ann Haydu
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Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It’s like a gift from the universe.Corey Ann Haydu
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If you love someone and they vanish, you are left nodding like a zombie and throwing teacups at a wall.Corey Ann Haydu
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The laws of physics say if there’s a party, Isla will eventually end up dancing on a table.Corey Ann Haydu
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You never know what’s going to be in the garden in June when you’re looking at it in January.Corey Ann Haydu
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Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways.Corey Ann Haydu
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...The human mind is a complicated place... We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to.Corey Ann Haydu
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Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.Corey Ann Haydu
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That's the thing about anxiety: It's a real time suck.Corey Ann Haydu
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I see my mother exactly as she is — sad and strong, tense and trying.Corey Ann Haydu
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We’re all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.Corey Ann Haydu