is seriously one of the best books in the whole world. and i just finished it for thesecond time...and i'm actually currently watching the movie.
so i'm just gonna post dome of my favourite quotes from it on here.
enjoy.
"'You know, some things don't matter that much, Lily. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the over all scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart -- now, THAT matters. The whole problem with people is--'
'They don't know what matters and what doesn't.' I said, filling in her sentence and feeling proud of myself for doing so.
'I was gonna say, the problem is they KNOW what matters, but they don't want to CHOOSE it. You know how hard that is, Lily? I love May, but it was still so hard to choose Caribbean Pink for our house color like she wanted. The hardest thing on Earth is choosing what matters.'"
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"Life gives way into death, and then death turns around and gives way into life."
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"It was the oldest sound there was: Souls flying away."
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"'You know, Lily, people can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.'"
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Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a track of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took more strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can't ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now."
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"Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. How nobody is perfect. How you just have to close your eyes and breathe out and let the puzzle of the human heart be what it is."