“It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.”
“But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.”
“Men suck.
- Not all men. Just the really good ones.”
“Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided. ”
“In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.”
“Turned out there was some big, bad Wolf in my good boy after all.”
“She seems to think being cryptic is some kind of substitute for having a decent personality.”
“There’s always music,” he replied, “if you listen carefully enough.”
“She is leaving him, not all at once, which would be painful enough, but in a wrenching succession of separations. One moment she is here, and then she is gone again, and each journey takes her a little farther from his reach. He cannot follow her, and he wonders where she goes when she leaves.”
“We were each our own island, gathered together into one messed-up archipelago.”
“occasionally nods off against his shoulder; Lale doesn’t push him away. He is just one among countless young men stuffed into”
“I know what I think, but people don't want you to say what you think. They want you to say what they think. And knowing what that is isn't easy.”
“Love isn’t about loving a perfect person. No one is perfect. Everyone has flaws. You can fall in love with the flaws. You can love every atom in their body.”
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