“You don't really know someone until you see them in the dark.”
“They both carried a million cracks beneath the skin. Even under the stark light of the fluorescents, it was hard to see which of them was more broken. But for the first time, she felt like she had to vanquish her mental illness not for herself but for someone else. Because she was broken with him, and if she fixed herself, maybe she could make him a little less broken, too.”
“After I flay the skin from your body, I'm going to dye it and sew it into a handbag. Special order from your momma.”
“Love and hate are closely related expressions of the same intensity. Both require passion, and neither follows logic.”
“He tipped her a crooked smile, made of sugar and shit.”
“Sometimes you have to step back to open the door.”
“Separation from people hadn't cured her need to please. She longed to lift the hem of isolation, look into eyes full of acceptance, and see in them the reflection of a woman who didn't give a rat's ass.”
“Her lips slid into a foxy grin. “I made little Van voodoo dolls and stabbed them with toothpicks.”
“Her naiveté would be the first thing vanquished by the hard, heavy weight between his legs.”
“I'm the inescapable curse that caught you when you opened your door.”
“Eliminating the toxicity in your life is not a failure. It's curative and courageous and never, ever easy.”
“I'm sorry"
Whatever she heard in his voice, perhaps the reedy vulnerability in his otherwise controlled tone, brought her hands out from beneath him to grip his jaw and guide his face into light.
She stared up at him for a long, terrifying moment, her eyes searching, her lips rolling together. Then her fingers moved to his temples, combing through the hair over his ears, tenderly, lovingly, in a way he didn't deserve. Her gaze didn't waver from his as she swallowed. "I will never forget. But maybe someday, I might be able to forgive.”
“I'd like to make you an offer.”
“Fuck him, but he wanted to be her security, her anchor, her fucking everything. Not as her captor but as her lover.”
“If it's in the bin, it's public property.”
“death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”
“Johnny, did you ever hear of the Club of Rome?" Johnny had, but the audience would need reminding. "They were the people who did computer simulations to find out how long we could get along on our natural resources. Even with zero population growth—" "They tell us we're finished," Sharps broke in. "And that's stupid. We're only finished because they won't let us really use technology. They say we're running out of metals. There's more metal in one little asteroid than was mined all over the world in the last five years! And there are hundreds of thousands of asteroids. All we have to do is go get 'em." "Can we?" "You bet! Even with the technology we already have, we could do it. Johnny, out there in space it's raining soup, and we don't even know about soup bowls.”
“Toby was right. Finn was my first love. But Toby, he was my second. And the sadness in that stretched like a thin cold river down the length of my whole life.”
“In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.”
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