- Author: [[Ally Condie ]] - Full Title: Crossed - Tags:: books [[inbox]] -  - ### Highlights first synced by [[Readwise]] [[2020-09-03]] - Fine, Grandfather, I think to myself. I will be strong enough to go without the tablet. But there are other things I’m not strong enough to go without, and I intend to fight for them. ([Location 3526](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0052RE4MQ&location=3526)) - We have all been carved out by our sorrow. Cut deep like canyon walls. ([Location 3701](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0052RE4MQ&location=3701)) - But loving lets you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk. When you first love, you look blind and you see it all as the glorious, beloved whole, or a beautiful sum of beautiful parts. But when you see the one you love as pieces, as whys—why he walks like this, why he closes his eyes like that—you can love those parts, too, and it’s a love at once more complicated and more complete. ([Location 3937](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0052RE4MQ&location=3937))