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"It's funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are, who you sit next to in music is all about how close your names are in the alphabet. Such a game of chance."
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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."
"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."
"To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience..."
"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."
"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."
"No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book."
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"The thought of Peter and John Ambrose McClaren in the same space together again is discomforting. Where would I even look?"
"Sometimes it's like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It's like you see them through a special lens - but maybe if it's how you see them,that's how they really are. It's like the whole tree falling in the forest thing."
"I suppose you cannot hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on."
"It's a known fact, that in life, you can't have everyhing. In my heart, I knew that I loved them both as much as it is possible to love two people at the same time. Conrad and I were linked, we would always be linked. That wasn't something I could do away with. And I know that now--that love isn't something you can erase--no matter how hard you try."
"If love is like a possession, maybe my letter are like my exorcisms."
"But you never said anything! Not one frigging word, Lara Jean!Automatically I say, 'Don't say 'frig.'S'Not one frigging word, Kitty repeats with a shake of her head.Peter cracks up, and I give him a dirty look. 'It all happened really fast, he offers. 'There was barely time to tell anybody-'Was I talking to you? Kitty snaps. 'No, I don't think so. I was talking to my sister.Peter's eyes widen, and I can see him trying to keep a straight face."
"I think that time might be different for young people. The minutes longer, stronger, more vibrant."
"You were gullible,' he said. And then, 'When you were really little, you hated carrots. You wouldn't eat them. But then I told you that if you ate carrots, you'd get X-ray vision. And you believed me. You believed everything I said.' I did. I really did. I believed him when he said that carrots could give me X-ray vision. I believed him when he told me that he'd never cared about me. And then, later that night, when he tried to take it back, I guess I believed him again. Now I didn't know what to believe. I just knew I didn't believe in him anymore."
"He texts back: I love you.I'm starting to text back, I love you, too, when my phone rings. It's Peter's house number, and I answer it eagerly.'I love you, too,' I say.There is surprised silence on the other end, then a little laugh to cover it up. 'Hi, Lara Jean. This is Peter's mom."
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