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"The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family."
"High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional."
"I needed to touch her, like I needed to breathe."
"I love her beyond the universe and back. I love her from this world to the next."
"Hey, Ethan." "Yeah?" "Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?" "The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice." He grinned and shot the ball. "It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up."
"It wasn't that she was different from all the other girls at Jackson. That was obvious. It was that she made me realize how much I was just like the rest of them, even if I wanted to pretend I wasn't."
"There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are."
"The mortal world is in a state of Beautiful Chaos and destruction, which will ultimately lead to an exquisite end."
"Fate is a wheel that turns without our hand"
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be."
"Don’t spit down my back and tell me it’s raining."
"Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees."
"We're gonna be late for English, and I gotta take these pantyhose off on the way. I'm gettin' a serious wedgie."
"Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them."
"Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light."
"There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt-it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living. That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing from now on. Living. And loving, as sappy as it sounds"
"I walked over and picked up one of the jugs. "What's this? Some kind of Caster disinfectant?" Lena took it out of my hand and lined it up with the others. "Yeah, it's called bleach."
"Summer School: Never stop learnin' if you want to stop earnin'. I'm reasonably sure there G's in learning and earning."
"Obviously the whole Wayward thing hasn't been explained to you properly. You don't have any superpowers. You can't leap over tall buildings in a single bound or fight Dark Casters with your magic cat. Basically, you're a glorified tour guide who's no better equipped to face a bunch of Dark Casters than Mary P. over here -Ridley"
"There were two kinds of people in our town. The stupid, and the stuck."