“I tell her she's beautiful and perfect and she's going to be okay. I tell her she doesn't need to change herself to fit in with shallow girls or to matter to someone. I tell her everything I wish I had ever known. I tell her I love her, and I realize as I say it that I love me, too.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“The truth is, the world is a fucked up place sometimes.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“But progress is always dangerous, isn't it? Most of the time, walls don't get dismantled brick by brick. Someone has to crash through them.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“Remember when you used to hate me?”
I laugh-sniff-hiccup. “Well, you used to be insufferable.”
“I think incorrigible is a better word.”
I lean my forehead against the wall and let myself imagine for a moment that it’s his shoulder, warm and firm, beside me. “You’re so full of it.”
“Hey, I just got tortured for you. Easy on the ego.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“If you look like you belong, people assume you do.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“Loving someone doesn't ever completely go away.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“Let me look at you.” I pull away and put my hands on his cheeks, examining his face. Blue eyes, of course. And how could I forget that mouth? Thin pink lips with one crooked corner always suggesting a mocking smile. My God, how had I never noticed before how handsome he is? “You need a haircut.”
He rubs the side of his thumb over my cheekbone. “You’re beautiful.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“I guess you can never really know what's going on inside another person.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“I've been scared of so much stupid crap in my life. Making a bad grade or not fitting in. God, I was scared of you. And it was all such a waste. None of it matters now that the real scary shit is here.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“But soon we’ll be gone, so this is my last chance.” He gives me a shy little smile. “I love you.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“I squeeze Finn’s hand back, and my eyes fall closed. I feel something like the whisper of a touch to my face. Deep from the back of my mind, a voice that sounds a lot like my own speaks to me like a memory, telling me I’m strong and loved and that everything is going to be okay.
And, for some strange reason, I believe it.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“Time travel isn’t a wonder; it’s an abomination.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“It's a silence I know. The kind that's actually a sound so loud your brain doesn't know how to interpret it at first.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“Well, that was easy,' I whisper as we follow the little signs with arrows that lead toward room 126. 'No, that was very dangerous and daring, and it was only through my extreme charm that we pulled it off.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“I almost regret having to tell him this. No one should be confronted with the depths of darkness they're capable of all at once.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“How long have I loved Finn? It crept up on me so gradually, I don't know if I can even pin the moment down.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“There are risks, but progress is always dangerous, isn't it? Most of the time, walls don't get dismantled brick by brick. Someone has to crash through them.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“It's always been you and me, James. That's why I can't kill you, and you can't kill me. Because even if it means the end of the world, I love you too much.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“It's time you started seeing how great you are, just like you wish Marina could see it. I mean, look at me. I think I'm fantastic.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“I hate you,' I say. 'I know,' he says, and he holds me until I can breathe again. I pull away and wipe my eyes. 'Sorry,' I mumble. 'It's okay. I'm sure I'll deserve it one day.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“If I don't want, I can't be disappointed.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“I look down at the gun. It's jammed. Stupid semiautomatic piece of crap.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“I quickly remember what Finn taught me about how to get what you want from people: pay attention to them, figure out what they want and what they're afraid of.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“I tell her everything I wish I had ever known.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“I watch James's face. His expression is an open book to me, because I took the time to learn the language many years ago.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“I struggle to keep my hard, expressionless mask in place. The doctor's most powerful weapon has always been his particular brand of brutal honesty. Bruises fade, but words like that fester.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“I stop, because a little piece of me can't help hoping. I turn to look at him, and know, to my shame, that he could break my resolve with a single word.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“He's got it all. The lineage, the resources, the perfect presidential hair. He'd be crazy not to run.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“How can you be so cruel?' 'You'll find out.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
“When it comes to James Shaw, it seems, I will never learn.”
― Cristin Terrill, quote from All Our Yesterdays
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“Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from Factotum
“Are you who I think you are?”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Penultimate Peril
“It had been a great thing, in those Old Times, to be an American. You had been deeply conscious of being one of a great nation. It was no mere matter of pride, but also there went with it a profound sense of confidence and security in life, and a comradeship of millions.”
― George R. Stewart, quote from Earth Abides
“While dragging herself up she had to hang onto the rail. Her twisted progress was that of a cripple. Once on the open deck she felt the solid impact of the black night, and the mobility of the accidental home she was about to leave.
Although Lucette had never died before—no, dived before, Violet—from such a height, in such a disorder of shadows and snaking reflections, she went with hardly a splash through the wave that humped to welcome her. That perfect end was spoiled by her instinctively surfacing in an immediate sweep — instead of surrendering under water to her drugged lassitude as she had planned to do on her last night ashore if it ever did come to this. The silly girl had not rehearsed the technique of suicide as, say, free-fall parachutists do every day in the element of another chapter.
Owing to the tumultuous swell and her not being sure which way to peer through the spray and the darkness and her own tentaclinging hair—t,a,c,l—she could not make out the lights of the liner, an easily imagined many-eyed bulk mightily receding in heartless triumph. Now I’ve lost my next note.
Got it.
The sky was also heartless and dark, and her body, her head,and particularly those damned thirsty trousers, felt clogged with Oceanus Nox, n,o,x. At every slap and splash of cold wild salt, she heaved with anise-flavored nausea and there was an increasing number, okay, or numbness, in her neck and arms. As she began losing track of herself, she thought it proper to inform a series of receding Lucettes—telling them to pass it on and on in a trick-crystal regression—that what death amounted to was only a more complete assortment of the infinite fractions of solitude.
She did not see her whole life flash before her as we all were afraid she might have done; the red rubber of a favorite doll remained safely decomposed among the myosotes of an un-analyzable brook; but she did see a few odds and ends as she swam like a dilettante Tobakoff in a circle of brief panic and merciful torpor. She saw a pair of new vairfurred bedroom slippers, which Brigitte had forgotten to pack; she saw Van wiping his mouth before answering, and then, still withholding the answer, throwing his napkin on the table as they both got up; and she saw a girl with long black hair quickly bend in passing to clap her hands over a dackel in a half-tom wreath.
A brilliantly illumined motorboat was launched from the not-too-distant ship with Van and the swimming coach and the oilskin-hooded Toby among the would-be saviors; but by that time a lot of sea had rolled by and Lucette was too tired to wait. Then the night was filled with the rattle of an old but still strong helicopter. Its diligent beam could spot only the dark head of Van, who, having been propelled out of the boat when it shied from its own sudden shadow, kept bobbing and bawling the drowned girl’s name in the black, foam-veined, complicated waters.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.”
― Christopher Moore, quote from Fool
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