“I think I’m the most hurt by the fact that I’m not like him. I would’ve chosen him over everything else. The whole world could’ve burned down and I would’ve pulled him from the wreckage of it.”
“You’re so adorable sometimes. I almost don’t regret not killing you.”
“She’s a loner. She pays her own way. She is someone who doesn’t know her place, or if she does, she doesn’t abide by the rules. She’ll see right through your lies. She’ll steal your heart without even trying. She’ll blink at you with a million whispers in the night while she holds your hand as if she’s the only one who fits it right. You’ll want to carry her bones inside your bones.”
“You can’t be serious!” “I’m so serious.” “He’s a psychopath.” “He’s my psychopath.”
“Even swimming in sorrow, he won’t let me drown.”
“You’ve changed me. I want to be the favorite taste that touches your lips.”
“it eat my brain?” I ask. He looks confused. “No.” “Mind control?” I ask. “I wish.”
“He becomes a thief, wiping away my tears with the back of his hand, trying to steal my sorrow from me.”
“I’m not in love with him. I would never call it that. It’s more of a growing fascination with him. He’s unlike anyone I’ve ever known, but he’s maladjusted and broken—unpredictable and frightening.”
“I’m just a collection of sad stories, Kyon.” “I”
“Then you might have to kill everyone.” “So be it.” “Why are you so crazy?” I ask as I gently rest my forehead against his chest.”
“No one has ever worn my clothes before.” “No one would dare,” I murmur. “You’re a scary beast.” “You dared.” “I did, but I have a problem with authority.” He”
“He has an equal stack of pancakes on his plate. He picks up his fork and says, “You know these aren’t very good for Pretty Town.”
“You. Must. Chill. Do you know what that means?” He looks at me in exasperation. “I never know what you’re trying to say. I have no idea what being cold brings to this situation.” For”
“The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.”
“Then it all came together—every particle of discontent, nostalgia, and resistance in England—fusing in the North. The North: two words to describe a territory and a state of mind. England was conquered and civilized from the South upwards, and as one approached the borders of Scotland—first through Yorkshire and then Durham and finally Northumberland—everything dwindled. The great forests gave way first to stunted trees and then to open, windswept moors; the towns shrank to villages and then to hamlets; cultivated fields were replaced by empty, wild spaces. Here the Cistercian monasteries flourished, they who removed themselves from the centers of civilization and relied on manual labour as a route to holiness. The sheep became scrawnier and their wool thicker, and the men became lawless and more secretive, clannish. Winter lasted eight months and even the summers were grey and raw, leading Northumberland men to claim they had “two winters—a white one and a green one.” Since ancient times these peripheral lands had gone their own way, little connected to anything further south. A few great warrior families—the Percys, the Nevilles, the Stanleys—had claimed overlordship of these dreary, cruel wastes, and through them, the Crown had demanded obeisance. But”
“As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.”
“Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.”
“But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].”
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