Book: Tilted horizon

If you want, even very small, can be anything around to find a reason for joy.

To advertise everything I do, is to prove to others that your life is better than theirs.

We raise children, giving them all our love and knowing that the day will come when they leave us, and that you have to let them go and be glad that their life choices don't coincide with ours. It's sweet and at the same time a bitter confirmation of the fact that we managed to make them older and independent.

I want to remain forever the one who filled you with love. Let this love be so much that the best of your ability in life remains exactly the ability to love. You know, ultimately it comes down to two emotions: fear and love. After I left, when you let go of fear, you'll still have one obligation - to love hard, without respite, presented to you every day. I want you to promised me that, because that is the only eternity I'm sure.

I spend my time as I want, and I want to be with you every second, no lose, filled with your scent, the warmth of your skin, your eyes, the beating of your heart. In the world there's no place I'd want to be like this the unmade bed.

The only truth is that the person feels alive, yet retains the ability to marvel.

You gave me so much love that we were able something out of me to mold. Meetings anonymous disappointed I will say that I was saved by an incredible woman. We were happy, and this entails certain responsibilities in relation to happiness. <...> Whatever the given equation, to be two means to cancel the subtraction and addition. The smaller will be one or the other, the more will remain of the both of us.

- Sometimes it is impossible to explain you to someone feel, just know that this person gets you to where you have never been.
- And you have never visited before meeting with me, Josh Kepler?
I'm with you, hope, and this is the most beautiful place I've been in my life.

I have to tell you a secret, hope. I have never told anyone this, not even Luke. I'm a fraud. If you only knew how hard I'm trying not to grow up! I want like twelve years, to admire a father and daughter who aren't taking each other's eyes in a restaurant, kissing couple. I want to touch the sight of those old men on the bench, still smiling at life, I want to melt trusting the dog looking up at you as the embodiment of happiness. I want to continue to admire the secret exchanged between the two, silently looking at each other in the crowd, as if looking sometimes at each other we're in lectures, to laugh like crazy when you cannot do it - then you, no one to surpass, to be afraid that you'll leave me: I'm constantly afraid that you'll get sick of me and leave... I Think that among thousands of people you can know those who love each other as much as we, those who are just innocently looking at the world, those who are alive with hope, those who doubt in themselves, but not their favorite. I was very fortunate that I got to know you, hope.

- We agreed to discuss it with me. What'd you tell her?
- Nothing specific, so General conversation about what interests me the most.
- You have not discussed anything but sex?
- You are such a jackass, Luke! Imagine, discussing, and much more!

I think you're afraid of happiness, hope. Maybe you're scared that you'll just try it out, and it will take and will flow away between the fingers. But happiness is impossible without risk. How you act when you want to have fun? Go to the lab or study in the library. How to work with such a thirst to change the world in your heart and be content with the monotony of life? If you're not ready to do everything to push the walls of everyday life, maybe you just don't want to be happy?

- Did you not become me to suggest that tonight in love with me?
- With such a mind and such a fool? Amazing!
- Don't joke with such things, Josh, I only have one heart, and I don't want it trampled.

Josh stepped up to her and hugged her.
Hope never climbed with kisses, and first kisses were for the most part unsuccessful, she met the then sluggish, too fast lips, but what happened with Josh was... She searched for the right word to describe a wave of shiver ran through her back and shattered into countless spray at the bottom of the head. This kiss was the embodiment of tenderness. Namely tenderness gave her the greatest happiness, because it's a quality she valued above all else, for it promised a flawless equilibrium of the mind and senses.
Josh looked at her. She mentally begged him to be silent, not to spoil the words, the intoxication of the first kiss. He closed his eyes and became absolutely irresistible - and patted her on the cheek.

- Did you and Luc know each other?
<...>
- We met in high school. You what?
- The way he was then?
- A little crazy is just what I immediately loved about him.
- We are all part of the shift. The offset is the position through which the light enters.
- Well, it all glowed.