“Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.”
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“How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust–and also to make you feel so whole?”
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“If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.”