“ROMEO: Here’s the thing: when you back a wounded dog into a corner, it’s going to come out fighting.”
“Romeo: You couldn’t put a price on piece of mind.”
“Rimmel: I finally accepted the fact I was really struggling today, and with that acceptance, it became a little easier to breathe.”
“Romeo: You know what pisses me off?
When good days are ruined by bad s*t.”
“ROMEO: If there was one thing I’d learned over the past few years, it was life wasn’t easy. In fact, at times, it was f*cking brutal. Family was supposed to be the exception. Family was supposed to make life easier. It wasn’t always that way.
Guess that’s why the six of us formed our own family. A family by choice and out of loyalty.”
“ROMEO: Fastest way to not hear what someone has to say? Hang up on them.
Did it make me an *sshole? Sure did. Did I give a rat’s *ss? H*lls no.”
“VALERIE: .....It isn’t your fault. These things, these horrible things just happen.”
“Life wasn't just any one thing. It was a combination... a melting pot of emotions, a mix of salty and sweet.”
“I smiled into his lips, and he continued to kiss me. "Your smile is my favorite flavor," he said, pulling away slightly.”
“The memories still seemed to haunt me at a moment's notice.”
“My brain was the internet, and I had one thousand tabs open all the time.”
“He still did it. He still looked at me like I was all he saw, like I was the sun and the moon all wrapped up into one.”
“You may be half the size of my son, but your strength matches his.”
“I was stronger. Not healed. I would never be "healed." I didn't think there was such a thing for a person who'd lost a child. It was simply learning to live incomplete.”
“Sometimes the worst insults are the ones that prey on our deepest fears.”
“That's right. Your husband. I belong to you, Rim. Always. I don't want anyone but you. I haven't since the day you spilled pencils everywhere, in your lesbian sweater, and gave me a list of rules.”
“Quiet Romeo was a scary Romeo. It was like the calm before the storm. Or an empty football stadium.”
“She was a collector of lost souls. The forgotten, the bypassed, the most beautiful at heart. Rimmel saw beauty no one else saw, and even though how she made others feel was amazing, it was nothing compared to the way it made her shine.”
“Let me tell you something. A man ain’t a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can’t chop down because they’re inside.”
“Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time. Human life was lived on another scale of time entirely. An apple turned brown in a few minutes. Silverware turned black in a few days. A compost heap decayed in a season. A child grew up in a decade. None of these everyday human experiences prepared people to be able to imagine the meaning of eighty million years - the length of time that had passed since this little animal had died.”
“Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.”
“A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin.”
“Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.”
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