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This Adventure Ends

Emma Mills

Top 10 Best Quotes

“The thing about fic is that is comes from love. Characters you love so much, that you feel so deeply for, you'll watch them fall in love a thousand different ways, over and over.”

“Dreams don't have to be realistic- that's why they're dreams. You have to work to make them happen. Or else they would be...realities”

“We should all find something to be weirdly passionate about, don't you think?”

“I think about that kind of love as we increase in altitude. How maybe it doesn’t just stand for romance—maybe it works for friendship, too. Maybe there’s a kind of friend love that opens you up… Maybe you didn’t have a place for it within you before, but once it finds you out, crawls inside, and makes space for itself, you can’t live without it ever again.”

“I like you,' I say. 'I lustful-sun like you, I meteorite like you, you are the fucking pink Starburst to me.”

“We should all find something to be weirdly passionate about, don’t you think?”

“I'm sorry. So sorry. Don't mean to interrupt. It's just...are you for fucking serious?”

“The city pulses on around us, and I'm not sure which one of us is anchoring the others, but I've never felt less adrift.”

“Come on," he says. "I'm like the yellow Starburst of this group." My lips twitch. "You're at least the orange Starburst.”

“Alone didn’t always mean lonely, but sometimes it did, and even then, she reveled in it. Lunches in the music room. Afternoons reading in the park. Loneliness was a kind of wanting, but it was also this incredible freedom. Not having to rely on anyone or have anyone rely on her. No one to disappoint or be disappointed by. Alone was good and comforting and dependable.”

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Book Keywords:

friends, friendship, love, funny, city, alone, inspirational, fandom, life, loneliness, fanfic

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