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1 " Wait, how do most people make friends? I've only done it once. There has to be an easier way of going abouit it than getting thrown around and bleeding all over the place. But both of us went through that. So maybe...Nosebleeds = Friendship Maybe friends are drawn to bloodsheed. You know. Like sharks. "
― Leah Thomas , Because You'll Never Meet Me (Because You'll Never Meet Me, #1)
2 " Let me put it more artistically, with greater sophistication:They left us in the toilet. In the deepest pile of shit. And we're coated in the crappy residue of their desicions. But that does not mean we are the one who pooped, Moritz. And neither are we the poop.Never think that. We're not the poop. "
3 " Who'd have thoght I could miss someone I've never actually met? Me. I've thought that. I miss tons of things I've never seen, and now you most of all. "
― Leah Thomas
4 " Maybe we're on the wrong side of some metaphorical bridge where the grass is crusty and not grass at all, but sharp little spines of glass. I dunno, Moritz.But the one little speck of green that I get is your letters, so please never stop writing me.You got that?Never stop.Because you'll never meet me and it's the closest we can get. "
5 " Please follow these instructions:1. Stack the pages of this letter neatly. 2. Roll the pages up into a cylinder. 3. Smack yourself over the head with it. 4. Repeat. You complete ass. "
6 " But here's my humble pie: I've never been all that awesome at patience. "
― Leah Thomas , Nowhere Near You (Because You'll Never Meet Me, #2)
7 " Look, it's bad enough that someone hurts you and you're expected to carry the word 'victim' like a scar, whether you want it or not. But sometimes the world is so bogus that no matter how you try to avoid it, you end up being a victim 'again'. "
― Leah Thomas , Violet Ghosts
8 " Maybe the reason people avoid you is because the emotions your brain sends out when you click are kind of... negative emotions?Maybe you're clicking unhappiness at people, and they're sending it back in echoes. "
9 " Auburn-Stache. Am I selfish?""I've never met a soul that wasn't. I've met a lot of people who don't bother wondering. "
10 " Let me tell you a wondrous story. For once, let me be the shining one. It is springtime. Birds are noisiest now. I can almost see the shape of the sky. "
11 " Even if you are powerless, your words are not "
12 " I know that there's a customary cliche about librarians being what crass people might call "hard-asses". "
13 " I am not afraid that you will hurt me. If you do, the scars won't last for eternity. People hurt each other all the time. Especially when they care for each other. "
14 " I want to read all the books that made you, Ollie Ollie UpandFree. "
15 " The eyes are windows to the soul "
16 " There's more than one way to be a fragile person. "
― Leah Thomas , Wild and Crooked
17 " ...basically everything in the world is miraculous. "
18 " No, how do you know I'm good? Can you really just tell by looking at someone?' What if someone could see the goodness inside people, in colors, how I see electricity? "
19 " ...and I couldn’t reply because, aside from my disgust and my anger and my scorching throat, what tasted worse was knowing he was right. "
20 " I have much human thinking to do, which is no simple thing. My conscience is a carefully cultivated thing. "
