A week feels like a year when you're seventeen and in love. A twenty minute drive might as well be an ocean. But we were together again and the whole world was rejoicing, even the gravel crunched melodiously under our feet as we danced onward through the night.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir

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It all comes down to this: when you recognise your loneliness in another person, when you see desperation so familiar to yours written across someone else, you can't just let them leave.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir

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When you meet an extraordinary person, it's like they get inside you, under your ribs, and shuffle everything inside you around until they find space for greatness to grow. But extraordinary people always get away. And when they leave, they take that little part of you with them. Suddenly you find yourself with a gap in your chest that you don't know how to live with. Suddenly you're frightened of being yourself without them.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir

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People aren't always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can't just meet someone and expect them to be everything you're looking for and then be angry when they're not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It's foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir

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It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

—Colleen Hoover in Confess

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It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

—George Burns

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I was trying not to think about the distance too much, but it was my hope that no matter what happened, at least we'd always be able to find each other.

—Sarah Dessen in What Happened to Goodbye

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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.

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