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If He Had Been with Me

Laura Nowlin

Top 10 Best Quotes

“I've loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn't change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing of my body and desire until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me.”

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel the printed words seeping through my skin and into my veins, rushing to my heart and marking it forever. I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”

“Just because something seems impossible doesn´t mean that you shouldn´t try.”

“I love him in a way I cannot define, as if my love were an organ within my body that I could not live without yet could not pick out of an anatomy book.”

“Stay I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But of course he never does.”

“And it's impossible to say and even harder to feel.”

“I want to savor this wonder, this happening of loving a book and reading it for the first time, because the first time is always the best, and I will never read this book for the first time ever again.”

“I tell myself relationships are hard work. No one is perfect. There's no such thing as happily ever after.”

“Perhaps he would ask me what books mean to me. I would tell him that it means living another life;”

“They don’t see that her tension and perfection are the only things holding her together.”

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Book Keywords:

first-time, books, friendship, love, autumn, relationship, finny, childhood, reading-books, relationships, feel, growing-up, sad, reading, happily-ever-after

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