"He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly."
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"Most of the time one night blends into the next and weeks blend into weeks and months into other months. And sooner or later we all die. But at the beginning of the night anything’s possible."
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"Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious."
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"I've never really thought about it before, but it's a miracle how many kinds of light there are in the world, how many skies: the pale brightness of spring, when it feels like the hole world's blushing; the lush, bright boldness of a July noon; purple storm skies and a green queasiness just before lightning strikes and crazy multicolored sunsets that look like someone's acid trip."
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"You came form different starts and you'll come to different ends."
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"His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams."
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"My heart is fluid and soaring. There's no longer any space between heartbeats."
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"Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?” He smiles a sad little smile and I swear it’s like he knows. “Sometimes I’m afraid of what I’m leaving behind,” he says."
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"And a face above mine, white and beautiful, eyes as large as the moon. You saved me. A hand on my cheek, cool and dry. Why did you save me? Words welling up on a tide: No, the opposite. Eyes the colour of a dawn sky, a crown of blond hair, so bright and white and blinding I could swear it was a halo."
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"Lies are just stories, and stories are all that matter. We all tell stories. Some are more truthful than others, maybe, but in the end the only thing that counts is what you can make people believe."
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"No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved."
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"That's when you realize that most of it-life, the relentless mechanism of existing-isn't about you. It doesn't include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you've jumped the edge. Even after you're dead."
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"Of all the systems of the body - neurological, cognitive, special, sensory - the cardiological system is the most sensitive and easily disturbed. The role of society must be to shelter these systems from infection and decay, or else the future of the human race is at stake. Like a summer fruit that is protected from insect invasion, bruising, and rot by the whole mechanism of modern farming; so must we protect the heart."
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"His secret name, which belongs to me, and to him, and to no one else."
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"Despite the fact that Raven and Tack are often fighting, it's impossible to imagine one without the other. They are like two plants that have grown around each other - they strangle and squeeze and support at the same time."
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"I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode."
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"You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them."
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"I didn't realize then what a privilege that was: to be bored with your best friend; to have time to waste."
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"The first one, we’ll name Blue."
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"That’s what you do for family. Anything."
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