"The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air."
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"The. World. Is. Not. A. Safe. Place."
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"The guy's life drunk, I think, makes Candide look like a sourpuss. Does he even know that death exists?"
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"The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet."
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"What kind of world is this? And what do you do about it? What do you do when the worst thing that can happen actually happens?"
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"How can the word love, the word life, even fit in the mouth?"
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"You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles."
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"People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing."
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"We were all heading for each other on a collision course, no matter what. Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story."
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"grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out"
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"Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris."
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"Life’s a freaking mess… there’s not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It’s all a beautiful calamitous mess."
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"No hot guys should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. Not to mention wear the leather jacket or sport the cool shades. Hot guys should be forced into footie pajamas."
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"Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to."
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"He doesn't have to say it, i feel it too; it's not subtle - like every bell for miles and miles is ringing at once, loud and clanging, hungry ones and tiny, happy, chiming ones, all of them sounding off in this moment. I put my hands around his neck, pull him to me, and then he's kissing me hard and so deep, and i am flying, sailing, soaring."
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"This is our story to tell. You’d think for all the reading I do, I would have thought about this before, but I haven’t. I’ve never once thought about the interpretative, the story telling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever."
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"Each time someone dies, a library burns."
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"I wonder why bereaved people even bother with mourning clothes when the grief itself provides such an unmistakable wardrobe."
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"My grandmother thinks it's really funny to put all sorts of things in our - my lunch. I never know what'll be inside: e.e. cummings, flower petals, a handful of buttons. She seems to have lost sight of the original purpose of the brown bag." - Lennie "Or maybe she thinks other forms of nourishment are more important." - Joe"
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"I can't shove the dark out of my way."
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