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1 " To love, to live, to feel so much that your world keeps spinning, faster and faster, in that wonderful, chaotic mess of humanity that you’d so hastily give up. Immortality is overrated. It is nothing but the ability to live through it all and not experience a single thing, to eat everything without tasting it at all." Isak’s eyes shone with a desperate need. He wanted, more than anything it seemed, to be like me, when all I wanted was to be like him. "
― Sophie Whittemore , The Funnyman
2 " It’s all right, Byron. You’re more poet than you are pirate.” I walk up to him then.He scrambles to fix his spectacles. “But didn’t you always dream of adventure?”He stammers a bit. “I mean. I studied literature. "
― Sophie Whittemore , Catch Lili Too
3 " Demisexual?” Her face, that beautiful face, remains unchanged. Doesn’t shift toincredulity or boredom. Just understanding. Beautiful understanding and acceptance. “Iknow. I won’t press you into anything you don’t want. I love you, Lili. All of you and allof how you think and live and breathe. Demisexual just means loving differently, andthere’s nothing wrong with that. It’s your everything I love. Not bits and pieces.”“My everything?”She nuzzles her forehead beneath my chin. “Yes, your everything. Silly siren. "
4 " In Sumer, they wrote hymns about liquor and beer. Compared it to the onrush of theTigris and Euphrates. Sang odes to the goddess Ninkasi. No matter how long ago or howrecent, people drink to forget. "
5 " Lots of things exist in Gamin that shouldn't... It doesn't stop them from existing. "