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“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.”
“Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.”
“Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?”
“Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”
“Even the not saying can balloon into something bigger than words themselves.”
“Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.”
“He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?" She stares at him. "Me?" "Yeah," he says sitting back. "I'm way too honest with you.”
“Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do?”
“People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.”
“There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark.”
“She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.”
“It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed ...”
“The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.”
“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure s...”
“And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It's a feeling like falling.”
“and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now.”
“Theres a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes its actually a plane, that just last night, that star was them.”
“Someone once told her there's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together. Hadley has her doubts about how accurate this could possi...”
“But the crowds are surging around them and her backpack is heavy on her shoulders and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness , like the very last thing he wants is to be l...”
“That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.”