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    That’s what love is. It’s some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person.

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    He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever.

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    He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again – the year I realize that love doesn’t follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

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    This is what I like about photographs. They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

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    It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn’t know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

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    Sometimes, when you don’t ask questions, it’s not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It’s because you’re afraid they’ll tell you the truth.

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    You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you’d be be dragged down for the count, too.

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    If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn’t someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

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    The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It’s more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.

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