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Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.Nicole Williams
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Your whole world ceases to exist and you're nothing but a shell of a person you once were. Your mom has dealt with it her way, me in mine, and you in yours, " he said, lifting his hand off of John's gravestone and rising. "Your mom hates the world, I avoid it, and you try to save it.Nicole Williams
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Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.Nicole Williams
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Still trying to save the world?” “Always, ” I said, “and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s working. The world is still here.Nicole Williams
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My dad had once told me, crimson-red deep in “the talk, ” that with sons, all he had to worry about was one penis, but with a daughter, he had to worry about everyone else’s.Nicole Williams
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Everyone was going crazy, like they’d just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage.Nicole Williams
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...and specimens like this confirmed there had been some kind of divine rule in the universe because no natural selection process was up to the task of creating something like him. This was some god’s, somewhere’s, handiwork.Nicole Williams
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I’m a realist, ” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.Nicole Williams
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When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.Nicole Williams
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Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.Nicole Williams
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When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves, ” he said. “Your whole world ceases to exist and you’re nothing but a shell of the person you once were. Your mom has dealt with it in her way, me in mine, and you in yours.” He lifted his hand off John’s gravestone and rose. “Your mom hates the world, I avoid it, and you try to save it.Nicole Williams
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It's always amazing how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us.Nicole Williams
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I'll be the judge of that, I whispered, pressing my lips into his and, just like that, we were the only people on the dance floor. The only people in the universe. Jude was the sickness I didn't want to be cured of. He was the intoxicant I never wanted to be clear of.Nicole Williams