Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.

Garth Risk Hallberg
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  3. You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss

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  5. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Unknown

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  2. One day, he and William had been speeding toward each other; the next, careening away. But why?

  3. As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this.

  4. But what if time worked the other way around? What if what his adolescent self had felt then was the ghost of his present one, sitting here on a sagging bench, beckoning him into his future?

  5. And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?

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