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The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
Top 10 Best Quotes
“This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn't with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again.”
“He never understood that I wasn’t scared of someone leaving me, I was scared that the wrong person would stay.”
“This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart - and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.”
“How do you explain it when you find in someone what you’ve been waiting for your whole life? Do you call it fate? It feels lazy to call it fate. It’s more like finding your way home—where home is a place you secretly hoped for, a place you imagined, but where you’d never before been. Home. When you weren’t sure you’d ever get to have one.”
“There are parts I wish didn’t exist, parts I can’t look away from now. In one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It’s the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don’t turn away from the parts of someone we don’t want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.”
“The could-have been boys still love you.”
“Most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better... They want to hear what will make it easier.”
“People don’t tend to work that way. We have our opinion and we filter information into a paradigm that supports it.”
“Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality.”
“Which is when I understand, in a flash, what I’ve been doing wrong with her—what I’ve been doing wrong in how I’ve been trying to connect with her. I thought if I were nice enough, sweet enough, she’d understand she could count on me. But that’s not how you learn you can count on someone. You learn it in the moments when everyone’s too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.”
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