“That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way?”
“What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?”
“But even if you have what everyone else wants- if it isn't what you want, it isn't what you want”
“She's the ultimate heroine, strong-willed and independent, intelligent, loyal, but at the same time, she's not flawless, she's not above mistakes, or falling in love.”
“No offense to hot girls everywhere- but newsflash- there are hot girls everywhere.”
“But the scars are always there, waiting for something to poke them.”
“The getting is easy; the keeping is the important part.”
“Oh No! My wings are effed up!”
“And I’m okay, I really am, most of the time. But sometimes, I’m just not.”
“Growing up with my dad taught me to either lie like a pro or not bother.”
“I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing. ”
“She's like a wind-up monkey that winds itself.”
“But I'll say this, if what looks like the facts of the matter are conflicting with your feelings, then you need more information before deciding”
“I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.”
“If I met you last night, and brought you back to my place, or followed you to yours, and we had sex, that's what we asked for from each other. It's what I got, and what you got. I don't know you. You don't know me. Thanks for playing, and we're done. If by some fluke anything was said at some point during this entire exchange that made me curious enough to see you again, I would.
Has that happened before? A couple of times. Did it last? Clearly, no.”
“You may be the only one who'll see through all my bullshit and help me try to be something more, something better."
I stare at our intertwined hands. "I don't want to help you try to be anything. I want someone who's already something more. On his own. With or without me.”
“Or maybe I look in the mirror every day and am scared as shit that I’ll see either of my parents looking back at me.”
“But I'll say this, if what looks like the facts of the matter are conflicting with your feelings, then you need more information before deciding.
-Even if your feelings seem really sure of themselves?
-Especially then.”
“And I couldn't help but think about the time during the operation when there was nothing in my check: when they removed my heart, and before they put the other hear tin. When I was connected to the heart and lunch machine. When I was technically dead....
But I wasn't dead now...”
“The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze.
A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing.
Jack stood very still.
The colossal head turned, the scaled lip only three feet from Jack. The golden eyes gazed at him, wirling with fiery color.
Jack breathed in tiny, shallow breaths.
Dont blink. Don't blink...
Two gusts of wind erutped from the wyvern's nostrils Jack jumped straight up, bounced off the ground into another jump, and scrambled up the nearest tree.
In the clearing, Gaston bent over, guffawing like an idiot.
'It's not funny!”
“When we changed the channel from violent television to tamer fare, kids just ended up learning the advanced skills of clique formation, friendship withdrawal, and the art of the insult.”
“And of course in the long run, if there is a constant fight, the graceful is bound to be defeated and the efficient mind will win, because the world understands the language of mathematics, not of love.”
“This wasn’t about who liked who; this was a human being who did not deserve what happened to him.”
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