“Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.”
“Love was a dance floor where everyone you loved left a mark behind.”
“The last thing we expect others to do, its the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.”
“You have to survive because I won't live in a world without you.”
“When he pressed his lips to hers, she was not surprised. It happened the way the sun rose, the way a flower blossomed, the way fain fell from the sky, the way the dead stopped breathing. Naturally. Inevitably.”
“Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a life lived in shame.”
“I needed you to see me, finally. Every moment of your life, I have fallen more deeply in love with you.”
“First kisses were about discovery, transformation, wonder.”
“It is not our job to be happy, to be in love. We exist to make happiness and love possible for others.”
“I try to hook you up every day. What's the point of calendars without dates?”
“Tossed By Waves,
She Does Not Sink.”
“Languages have complicated family trees, you know—mixed marriages, stepchildren, even bastards. There are countless scandals in the history of languages, many murders, much incest.”
“Love. That which makes a life worth living. That which arrives to carry us where we need to go.”
“Stars grounded her. Their distance offered perspective when she couldn't see beyond her own pain”
“She liked the way this road smelled in the evenings, like rain falling on night-blooming jasmine. Locusts sang old songs in the darkness.”
“Silence is what causes most of humanities problems.”
“Brooks understood more than ever that she was the star of his life.”
“… in the sea of love, where everyone would love to drown. But now it’s gone; they say it doesn’t matter anymore.…”
“NEVER HAVE I EVER … • lied at Confession, • made out with my friend’s sister, • blackmailed a teacher, • smoked a joint, • lost my virginity. The way they played it at Evangeline, people who had done what you had not done had to tell their story and pass you their drink to gulp. The purer your past, the faster you got drunk. It was a corruption of the innocent, a confession in reverse. No one knew how the tradition got started.”
“The last thing we expect others to do is the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.”
“Love was a dance floor, where everyone you lost left a mark behind.”
“He told Eureka the only heat to use when you loved a sauce is the softest simmer.”
“There is great power in words. The universe flows out of them. Use them now, please. The universe awaits.”
“Nothing is real. There is only what we believe in and what we reject.”
“The sight of his face made her want to run away and straight to him, to see how intense those blue eyes could get.”
“What you think is advanced would embarrass any of the masters of the old. Their capabilities rastly surpassed ours. We are a thousand years behind what they achieved.”
“Her faith in you survives her,”
“It is consciousness that brings both suffering and enjoyment to the world.”
“Sometimes fear and dread are superior to tedium.”
“...too many people in such a limited place only served to fuel her anxiety.”
“He cried, and she cried too but their tears were travelling in parallel lines. It was too late. They should have cried together years ago.”
“For so long I have cursed this life, but in the end I can only come to accept it because I believe we all suffer from the anthology complex. We all compile these short stories that turn into fantasies.”
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