“How could you ever feel comfortable if no matter where you went you felt like you belonged someplace else?”
“And I was reminded once again how a song really can change the world.”
“If it looks like a duck and quacks likes a duck, it's a duck, right?”
“Wen grinned and I felt a warm glow and an odd dizzy sensation. And then I remembered something my dad once wrote me about falling in love. He said the phrase was apt because falling is exactly what it can feel like, as if you've finally allowed yourself to let go of some safety bar you didn't even know you were clinging to, and suddenly you find yourself tumbling towards the exciting unknown.”
“The thing is, my father has about as much rhythm as a drunken octopus […]”
“She was like having our own nanny, the Sex Nanny Sent By Satan.”
“Replaying her words in my head, I could feel my face redden again.
I wanted to flush my head down the toilet.”
“Just because you never look at me doesn't mean I'm not here.”
“...every now and then I watched him beam at Olivia. He obviously adored her. And I realized that meeting her father made me look at Olivia differently. She was somebody's little girl.”
“It felt like one of those perfect moments where everything comes together. But like I said, I don't believe in accidents. Even if this strange, musical moment, the final result of a long chain of unlikely events, never came to anything else, it was meant to be.
Something new had been born.”
“To friends, family, food and taking exams in comfortable, quiet areas without distractions or time restrictions!”
“You're perfect," He said roughly, cutting off my protest. "And if I had to do it over again, I would save you every time." His mouth closed over mine and there was no more thought. No more worry. No more pain or loss or fear. There was only Damian. His arm tightened around me, crushing me to him. I clung to him as his lips moved on mine with a need and hunger that nearly overwhelmed me.”
“Posar el tigre tiene algo de total encuentro, de alineación frente a un absoluto; el equilibrio depende de tan poco y lo pagamos a un precio tan alto, que los breves instantes que siguen al posado y que deciden de su perfección nos arrebatan como de nosotros mismos, arrasan con la tigredad y la humanidad en un solo movimiento inmóvil que es vértigo, pausa y arribo.”
“I found her in the living room watching re-runs of Sons of Anarchy. I think she had a thing for Charlie Hunnam.”
“As simple as it sounds, I think understanding who you are—and who you are not—is not the most important thing of all Important Things.”
“A key factor in the perpetuation of white-body supremacy is many people’s refusal to experience clean pain around the myth of race. Instead, usually out of fear, they choose the dirty pain of silence and avoidance and, invariably, prolong the pain.”
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