"There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action."
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"That's what time does: We stand stubbornly like rocks while it flows all around us, believing that we are immutable - and all the time we're being carved, and shaped, and whittled away."
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"I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed."
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"Direction, like time, is a general thing, the deprived of boundaries and borders. It is an endless process interception and reinterception, doubling back and adjusting."
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"You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist"
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"Not gray, exactly. Right before the sun rises there's a moment when the whole sky goes this pale nothing color-not really gray but sort of, or sort of white, and I've always really liked it because it reminds me of waiting for something good to happen."
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"people do terrible things, sometimes, for the best reasons."
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"Someday she will be saved, and the past and all its pain will be rendered as smoothly palatable as the food we spoon to our babies."
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"amazingly, i'd actually forgotten that i'm supposed to be plain. i'm so used to alex telling me i'm beautiful. i'm so used to feeling beautiful around him. a hollow opens up in my chest. this is what life will be like without him: everything will become ordinary again. i'll become ordinary again."
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"This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you."
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"I am now officially married to Fred Hargrove. Nothing will ever be the same."
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"I'll find you," he says, watching me with the eyes I remember. "I won't let you go again"
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"Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear."
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"Love. I love you. I’ll always love you, my love. You are the love of my life."
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"I’m sorry,” he repeats again, too low for Raven and Tack to hear. “I’m sorry for everything."
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"If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly."
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"Until, one day, she wasn’t."
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"Because if it weren’t for me, Lena and Alex would never have been caught at all. I told on them. I was jealous."
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"For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have asked him to cross."
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"I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder."
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