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"Years ago, I was crashed in gram’s garden and Big asked me what I was doing. I told him I was looking up at the sky. He said, “That’s a misconception, Lennie, the sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet."
"Maybe some people are just meant to be in the same story."
"I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground."
"It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world."
"Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world."
"This is what I want: I want to grab my brother’s hand and run back through time, losing years like coats falling from our shoulders."
"For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me."
"But what if music is what escapes when a heart breaks?"
"I've no use for talking, would just as soon store paper clips in my mouth."
"I don't know how the heart withstands it."
"And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks."
"It's as if someone vacuumed up the horizon while we were looking the other way."
"Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good."
"If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else."
"At least, the sun had the decency to stay the hell away from us."
"This is the secret I kept from you, Bails, from myself too: I think I liked that Mom was gone, that she could be anybody, anywhere, doing anything. I liked that she was our invention, a woman living on the last page of the story with only what we imagined spread out before her. I liked that she was ours, alone."
"I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen."
"I could step out of this sad life like it's an old sorry dress."
"He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be like to be cool and casual and fearless and passionate and so freaking alive just like he is- and for a split second I want to play with him. I want to disturb the birds. Later as he plays and plays as all the fog burns away I think he's right. That's exactly it- I am crazy sad and somewhere deep inside all I want is to fly."
"Dreams change, yes, that makes sense, but I didn't know dreams could hide inside a person."