“I am weird, and you know what? That's OK. So are most interesting people.”
“I believe in grey...Some things aren't straightforward. Not everything is true or false, real or imaginary, black or white. It's not that simple.”
“Imitation is the highest from of flattery. Until it isn't.”
“One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.”
“... it looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughing. I mean, how can you not laugh at a dog running on the beach? But I was also kind of crying, too. Laughing and crying simultaneously hurts. It hurts and it's confusing.”
“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.”
“The ocean is not to be trusted. It's dark and cold with a treacherous current that pulls you whichever way it wants. It can drown you or it refuse to drown you.”
“She was the whisper of a shadow.”
“Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Until it isn't.”
“Mine the long night
The secret place
Where lovers meet
In long embrace
In purple dark
In silvered kiss
Forget the world
And grasp your bliss”
“I found him carefully studying me, his lips in a thin line. “Has anyone ever taken care of you?” he asked quietly.
“No.” I’d long since stopped feeling sorry for myself about it.”
“You?' is all I can manage to choke out.
'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?”
“Food cannot cause you to put on weight, unless you think it can.”
“I now understand the need for faith—pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith—as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.”
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