“Love can be broken but never forgotten.”
“You're in my head, you're in my heart, and I've lost so much already. I can't lose you too.”
“Ben kissed me like he could kiss me forever, like he had to kiss me forever and he wanted to, he wanted me, and when he felt my surprise at that, I could feel again how beautiful I was to him, how I was beautiful beyond words.”
“Sometimes you could get so turned around that even breathing became complicated.”
“It was where I was supposed to be now. But it wasn't where I wanted to be.”
“I was the girl who had hair like blood.”
“I know what it's like to lose everything you had, to lose your whole life.”
“All I saw was Ben, and I knew that all he saw was me. The whole world didn't - it was there, but it didn't matter.”
“Mom said that loving art was just as important as being able to create it.”
“We could be something amazing- or we could end up destroying each other.”
“I hadn’t been that interested in a hug. I could get
them anytime.
Or at least, that’s what I’d thought.”
“God made it clear to me that if He were concerned about His reputation, He would not have chosen someone like me to represent Him in the first place. And if He were pursuing popularity, He would not have allowed Himself to be hung naked between two thieves on a cross.”
“Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted”
“What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.”
“There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)”
“poster of San Francisco. The image of the Golden Gate Bridge with Alcatraz off in the distance was one of her favorites. If she could visit one place in the world, that’s where she would go.”
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