“For the record, chocolate’s a pretty decent antidote for unrequited love.”
“Then like gravity, or maybe like magnets, our lips met again because they had to. And in that touch it felt like I was buried treasure he’d crossed seven seas to claim. I couldn’t feel the edges of my own body anymore; I was melting into his.”
“Even if the truth is dark, there’s still beauty in knowing it at last.”
“I’ve been trying to figure something out. Why on earth would your ponytail stick straight out from your head?”
“The screaming was the first clue that I’d turned invisible again. Above the steady roar of the river, my teammates shouted: some with paddles flailing, others”
“hadn’t even known if it was real or if I was losing my grip on sanity. But now, surrounded by people who looked”
“Good thinking,” said Coach. “Paddle for shore!”
“As Coach explained his version of the day’s events to Dad and Sylvia on the brick drive of our house, Will finally decided to acknowledge me.”
“To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.”
“Who loves — lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.”
“Darling, everyone is beautiful in her own
way, and I am a fairy.”
“They had supper and went away, and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and that this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being.
With this consciousness, and with physical pain besides the terror, he must go to bed, often to lie awake the greater part of the night. Next morning he had to get up again, dress, go to the law courts, speak, and write; or if he did not go out, spend at home those twenty-four hours a day each of which was a torture. And he had to live thus all alone on the brink of an abyss, with no one who understood or pitied him.”
“ First of all," he said, with a sly smile, "we have to kill you!”
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