“You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.”
― quote from Numbers
“Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.”
― quote from Numbers
“Nothing makes any sense. Nothing means anything. You're born, you live, you die. That's it.”
― quote from Numbers
“Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.”
― quote from Numbers
“And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.”
― quote from Numbers
“And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.”
― quote from Numbers
“People just don't seem to get me. Don't understand that I need my space. Always telling me what to do. They think rules and routines and clean hands and your p's and q's will make everything all right. They haven't got a clue.”
― quote from Numbers
“I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?”
― quote from Numbers
“You're mental. I always knew you were.”
― quote from Numbers
“Do you know what it's like to hear those words? To hear the person you love telling you they love you, too? If you don't now, I hope you do one day.”
― quote from Numbers
“If you’ve found someone who loves you – that’s the most important thing of all. If you’ve got that, then you should appreciate every damn second with them.”
― quote from Numbers
“Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?”
― quote from Numbers
“Todos sabemos que todo tendrá fin algún día, pero no podemos dejar que eso nos frene. No debemos dejar que nos impida vivir.”
― quote from Numbers
“We know it, but chose forget it. Is too much hard to bear. Yesterday, you made me realize that: we chose forget.”
― quote from Numbers
“Spider?” I’d said, with a question mark in my voice.
“Yeah.”
“You know at school . . . what did you do that for? Wade in like that?”
Spider frowned. “He was disrespectful, Jem. What you said—I could tell it was real. It was what you were really feeling. He had no right to make a joke of it.”
“Yeah, I know, he’s a tosser, but it’s nothing to do with you. You made a right show of yourself. You made a show of me.”
“I didn’t want him to get away with it.”
“Yeah, but I don’t need a knight in shining armor. I can look after myself.” He was smiling a bit now. I paused. “It’s not funny, man. It’s made everything worse,” I said quietly. “I’ve got comments all the time now, ‘bout you and me. Sly comments.”
He looked away, studied his hands. The knuckles on the right one were nearly healed up now.
My mouth had gone dry, but I had to get this clear with him. “You do know there’s no ‘you and me,’ don’t you, Spider?”
He looked up. “What?”
“We’re not like . . . together. Just mates.”
There was something about his sullenness when he said, “Yeah, ‘course. Just mates. Mates is good,” that made me think he felt the exact opposite. I was churning inside, cursing that day under the bridge. People were so bloody difficult. Why had I ever got involved?
He stood up, came toward me, putting an arm out. I thought, Shit, he’s going to hug me. Hasn’t he listened to anything? But his hand formed a fist, and he lightly punched my arm. “Listen, man, I know what you’re like. I’ve told you I’ll never say nothing nice to you. And now you’ve put my straight, I’ll never do nothing nice for you, either. OK? If someone disrespects you, I’ll let them. If you’re being mugged on the street, I’ll walk on by. If I see you on fire, I won’t even piss on you. OK?”
― quote from Numbers
“Sometimes, when things are confusing, we try and make sense of it our own way; we find ways of coping up.”
― quote from Numbers
“ " But we are starting again, Jem. If I hadn't met you, it probably would have been dope and pills and smoking crack and shooting up junk. Prison. Hospitalization. That's how it would have been for me, but you saved me from that. It's going to be different for us now." ”
― quote from Numbers
“ "Are you awake?" I whispered, my voice nearly disappearing in the darkness of the huge barn.
"Yeah."
"I'm freezing."
"I know. Me, too" A pause. A long, long pause. "Come here, then." ”
― quote from Numbers
“No se puede escapar a la muerte: al final siempre te alcanza.”
― quote from Numbers
“ I reached up and cupped the back of his neck and drew him down to me, and we kissed again. ”
― quote from Numbers
“Bloody Mike Tyson'd have trouble with you.”
― quote from Numbers
“ Lovers, yes, we're lovers now.”
― quote from Numbers
“Allí de rodillas lo abracé, le acaricié la espalda y el pelo y ambos lloramos juntos. No había palabras para expresar lo que sentíamos; las lágrimas lo decían por nosotros: el terror, el alivio, el amor y la pena todo mezclado en la sal.”
― quote from Numbers
“Hay una gran belleza en el hombre vestido de percal y calzado con sandalias, sin más armas que un bastón para andar y su credo de la no violencia, que se enfrenta al poderoso imperio británico, ¿no”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, quote from Wizard of the Crow
“Some say an army of horsemen
some an army on foot
others say ships laden for war
are the fairest things on earth.
But I say the fairest sight
on this dark earth
is the face of the one you love.
Nor is it hard to understand:
love has humbled the hearts
of the proudest queens.
And I would rather see you now
stepping over my threshold
than any soldier greaved in gold
or any iron-beaked ship.”
― Alison Croggon, quote from The Singing
“I didn't know what to say to that, so i kept my mouth shut. When in doubt,shut the fuck up.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, quote from Skin Trade
“,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.”
― Machado de Assis, quote from Dom Casmurro
“The two “idiots” Ginger and Zach, both golden retrievers, both beautiful-looking dogs—and both thicker than bricks when it came to brains—had been out sunning on the bedroom deck. They stood up and barked madly, as if he were an invader. Though if he were a real invader they’d have cowered in terror and stained the carpet as they fled into Jennifer’s room to hide.”
― William R. Forstchen, quote from One Second After
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