“buoyed notby thrill but by happiness.”

“Are you going to be playing for the pure thrill of unreluctant desire?”

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

“this might be the happy ending without the ending”

“You are happy even if you are afraid to admit it.”

“he is both the source of my happiness and the one i want to share it with.”

“That word again. Happy. It’s a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It’s a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be.I don’t want you to think I forgot.”