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"But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?"
"Live free or die."
"It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid."
"I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients"
"How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?"
"Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom."
"Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future."
"As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter."
"And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me."
"i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world."
"I love you. Remember. They cannot take it"
"I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen."
"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know."
"I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."
"But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins."
"Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart."
"Hope keeps you alive."
"A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets."
"I'd rather die my way than live yours."
"Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish"