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A Million Junes

Emily Henry

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“Letting go is not forgetting. It's opening your eyes to the good that grew from the bad, the life that blooms from decay.”

“Grief is an unfillable hole in your body. It should be weightless, but it's heavy. Should be cold, but it burns. Should, over time, close up, but instead it deepens.”

“Maybe for some people, falling in love is an explosion, fireworks against a black sky and tremors rumbling through the earth. One blazing moment. For me, it's been happening for months, as quietly as a seed sprouting. Love sneaked through me, spreading roots around my heart, until, in the blink of an eye, the green of it broke the dirt: hidden one moment, there the next.”

“I was just a moment, and you gave me a million Junes. I was just a moment, and you made me forever.”

“To love a handful of people very well, that's a good life.”

“When people pity you, it's like they don't realize that the exact same thing is coming for them. And then I feel embarrassed and uncomfortable and have to pity them, because, like, do you not realize that it's always someone's turn? You haven't noticed everyone gets a few blows that seem so big you can't survive them?”

“I promise you. I promise you the stars. I promise you the lake and falls, coywolves and robins. I promise earth and heaven: I will love you long after the last human has taken his last breath. When the stars burn out and the oceans freeze over and the whole world is ash and dust and ice, our names will still be carved into this tree of life, side by side, and I'll still be loving you.”

“I think once you've felt grief, it's hard not to catch someone else's.”

“Nothing sounds better tonight than living my small life well.”

“When you've been lost as I have," he once said, "you get good at finding your way home.”

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Book Keywords:

love, finding-your-way, life, home, lost, grief-and-loss

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