“Once you're out here in the world, nobody cares where you used to live. Who you are, that's what counts.”
“Believe me," he said, pointing his finger at me like a gun, "no good comes from lying about what you really want.”
“Like I told you on Thanksgiving, pretending is a lousy way to get through life.”
“What do you think about when you can't sleep? Sometimes I think about the ocean. I can see it lapping on the shore, waves rolling in one after the other, washing over the sand, never stopping. That's what usually puts me to sleep.”
“But we'd had only so many nights together, and the notebook had only so many pages, and that world was never going to get any bigger. The truth was that I couldn't have kept her even if she'd lived. At the end, we'd both been pushing at the walls of our secret world, pushing at each other. We'd given each other everything we could. It wasn't enough for either of us anymore.”
“But we'd only had so many nights together, and the notebook had so many pages, and the world was never going to get bigger.”
“Y, en ese momento bajo las estrellas, los cuatro entendieron lo más simple. A veces, el amor necesita un impulso de sus ángeles de la guarda para mantener los pies sobre la tierra. Pero una vez se emprende el vuelo, deben confiar en sus propias alas, para subir a las más elevadas e inimaginables alturas en el cielo... y más allá,”
“Forgive me-he mumbled against her lips. Please. Forgive me for what I'm going to do to you.
~Shade”
“Could she learn to like this guy?
"“It's nice to meet you." Kylie plastered a warm expression on her face. But she worried he could tell it was a sham.
"The pleasure is all mine," he said.
Kylie just smiled. He was completely right about that.”
“I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.”
“Aren't you something," Grandma said. "I never saw a midget up close."
"Little person," Briggs said. "And I never saw anyone as old as you up close, either.”
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