“We do not choose what happens to us. We can only choose what we do after. What we do now. We can only choose to keep going.”
“I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni.”
“Maybe that's why we used to get along so well - we both enjoyed lounging around in our own chaos.”
“And we clung to each other like we were drowning because, in a way, we were.”
“Sea, give me a break. It's always been you.”
“They do not disappear when they die. They leave us their strength.”
“He looked at me like I just told him the earth was flat and I had definitive proof.”
“Yeah, I do. Sometimes I worry my memories will fade without them.”
“Reflecting your current reality. Dreams are fasinating, aren't they? Portholes into the subconscious.”
“Of course,' Spider said. 'I'd bring you Popsicles and cheesy celebrity magazines.”
“Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.”
“I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures fixed forever in the all powerful and inscrutable stars. Ink black was the night beyond them, and they so like jewels that old poetry came back to me, the sound even of hymns sung only by men.”
“You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.”
“He felt like a bottle that is being slowly filled with warm, dirty warter.”
“Oh vanity! You are the lever with which Archimedes wanted to raise the earthly globe!”
“Kissing Sinclair was like making out with a sexy timber wolf— he was licking my fangs and nipping me lightly and growling under his breath and it was...oh, it was really something.”
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