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21 " It was just her and Midas in here, tucked away from the world. Here she could turn quietly into glass, with only love to distract her. "
― Ali Shaw , The Girl With Glass Feet
22 " Memories were just photos printed on synapses. "
23 " As if you could terminate love abruptly because the one you loved signed papers with someone else in a church. "
24 " He’d been an odd one, that boy with the camera. Such a distinctive physique: pale skin so taut on his skeleton, holding himself with a shy hunch, not ugly as such but certainly not handsome, with a demeanor eager to cause no trouble, to attract no attention. "
25 " ...it's survival of the fittest, not the strongest or the biggest. "
― Ali Shaw , The Trees
26 " You can’t wait for the world to be perfect before you start living in it. "
27 " She sometimes wished she possessed the flawed kind of taste that drew girls to arseholes who wanted that one thing alone. "
28 " The woods felt like a sleeping monster worth tiptoeing past. "
29 " Sometimes someone else’s life can be the only thing that makes sense of your own. "
― Ali Shaw , The Man Who Rained
30 " Besides, he didn't have enough intact heartstrings to hand them to people to pull. "
31 " Wenn du in's Fettnäpfchen getreten bist und jemand dir freundlicherweise die Hand hinstreckt, um dich da rauszuholen, dann solltest du die Hilfe vielleicht annehmen, anstatt dich auch noch darin zu wälzen. "
32 " Her toes were pure glass. Smooth, clear, shining glass. Glinting crescents of light edged each toenail and each crease between the joints of each digit. Seen through her toes, the silver spots on the bed sheet diffused into metallic vapours. "
33 " Time had trampled through this churchyard and left behind, as time always did, the sense that just because things had progressed, they were progressing towards a goal. "
34 " Die Begegnung mit ihm war wie eine Kollision gewesen und sie hatte gewusst, dass sie ihr lebenlang genau danach gesucht hatte: mit solcher Wucht mit einem anderen Menschen zusammenzuprallen, dass sie für einen Moment mit ihm verschmolz.Und diesen Moment hatte sie nicht, wie erwartet, in einer leidenschafltichen Liebesnacht gefunden, sondern an diesem Morgen, als sie zur gleichen Zeit die Augen aufgeschlagen und den Blick des anderen gesucht hatten. Sie waren wie Neugeborene gewesen, die gemeinsam mit großen Augen ihren ersten Atemzug von der Welt kosteten. "
35 " Mesmo tão jovem, Midas havia começado a pensar nos negativos como armadilhas de luz: a luz queima um negativo como uma reminiscência física do passado. Lembranças feitas de luz. Uma ampliação era uma cópia maravilhosa, mas o negativo é que poderia ser guardado como um tesouro. Sem eles, tinha-se apenas um simulacro; com eles, podia-se ter um fragmento do passado de sua mãe, como uma peça verdadeira de cabelo recuperado ou de unha. "
36 " Este era seu plano: nadar mais e mais longe a cada dia, até que pudesse mergulhar sozinho em segurança. Até que pudesse mergulhar em oceanos mais nublados. Em cantos mais pálidos, mais imóveis do mundo. "
37 " The proposal thus surmounted, it had seemed to him that the hard work was over, and that all that remained was to live out their lives in wedded bliss. "
38 " Sometimes, just when she thought Seb was made out of wires and circuit boards, he came up with ideas so romantic that she wanted to throw her arms around him and bury a kiss in his hair. Were he only her little boy again, the one he had been not so many years ago, she would have done so there and then. "
39 " What good is being in love with a person, if it only binds you to a thousand quiet disappointments, and new problems for every one that you fix? "
40 " I swear," said Adrian, meaning it, "because I must. "