“You may exist in
this world--but I exist too
and I will not yield”
“Air goes in and out
of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart
brain - and so I am”
“For some things there are no explanations - no reasons, and so, when these things happen, there is nothing to talk about really. And it is best not to dwell on said things for too long, because you will find that life has no real meaning if you do.”
“I don't want to brag or anything, but I'm sorta like a rock star to these people.”
“Sometimes you just have to let crap slide when it comes to adults acting like kids, because that can be a beautiful thing. True? True.”
“There is only one of me and so many of the people who are not like me, and maybe I'm just an amusing distraction for those other people, Maybe I'm just a freak. A sideshow.”
“I want to have an assistant someday who will make freaky teens cool T-shirts so that they can do good things in style. I want to be Donna. So frickin' much.”
“I spread hope.
I'm a hope spreader.”
“I marvel at her - a woman with stocks and business suits and her own house.”
“She never laughs or smiles or tells a joke. She reminds me of a robot caked in meat.”
“As I pedal, I start to get a bad feeling. I start to feel like I have everything all wrong, and that everyone else is right, and all my hopefulness is just childish bullcrap.”
“We cry together- on the couch for different- reasons, but it helps.”
“Father Chee?"
"Yes, Amber?"
"Why do some people go through life never knowing a single major tragedy, and then others have horrible things happen to them over and over again?"
"I don't know.”
“The sun
Setting
Through
Pines Trees
At the edge
Of town
Makes me squint and
Smie”
“Flowers
Are in the
Ground,
Where we
Cannot see
The
Future
Wonderment”
“The sun
Setting
Through
Pines Trees
At the edge
Of town
Makes me squint and
Smile”
“How many
Pieces
Of bread
Separate
These words:
Needy,
Fine,
Wasteful?”
“Writing
Haikus one
After the
Other,
Knowing
Only the
Moment”
“The fallen
Leaf flies
Like a
Young Icarus
And
Then
Disintegrates”
“Tell me that you won't live your life afraid, but will grow up and live a better life than your mother could ever imagine.”
“We're celebrating our freedom. We're celebrating our ability to be kids when everything is trying to take that away from us. It's a choice, Ty. We can do whatever we want.”
“Leave it to Niles Sparks to prank his pranking partner in the middle of a prank.”
“As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, for ever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.”
“Oh, Sophronia, thank goodness. Save me? Please? All those young girls, in pastels, talking about the weather. I shall go jump off a bridge, I swear I shall. Do you have bridges in Wiltshire? They chatter, they chatter worse than Dimity ever did. Oh, the chattering! The chattering, it haunts me.”
“Of what use was it to be loved and lose one's beauty and become Real if it all ended like this? And a tear, a real tear, trickled down his little shabby velvet nose and fell to the ground.”
“In my defense, I was young and there was an open bar.”
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