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1 " You panic and you rage, then this calm settles over you, and you remake yourself. "
― Vendela Vida
2 " ...and on some nights in bed, in that moment before sleep erased the day, I would picture the way the sky in Lapland looked the morning I left, how the train had sped south beneath a sky that was brighter than it had been in weeks. It had pulsed with reds and oranges, as though hiding a beating heart. "
― Vendela Vida , Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name
3 " This is the way of air travel: fellow passengers applaud because they didn't die, and then they cut in front of you so they can exit four seconds earlier. "
― Vendela Vida , The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty
4 " Recently, everything around me felt familiar yet amiss, like the first time you ride in the back seat of your own car. "
5 " People pretend things didn't happen. Or so what, they happened, it's okay. Well, it's never okay. It's always ruined. "
6 " When it comes to books...They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis. "
7 " Even the air between them seemed to be dented, waiting to be straightened again. "
― Vendela Vida , The Lovers
8 " That was the same week my physics teacher taught my class the concept of infinity. I cried about it every night for months. "
― Vendela Vida , And Now You Can Go
9 " Sometimes we watch Bill Murray movies with him and his friends at his house on Sea View Terrace and marvel at the way the boys can recite all the lines the way we know every word of The Outsiders. "
― Vendela Vida , We Run the Tides
10 " We are thirteen, almost fourteen, and these streets of Sea Cliff are ours. We walk these streets to our school perched high over the Pacific and we run these streets to the beaches, which are cold, windswept, full of fishermen and freaks. We know these wide streets and how they slope, how they curve toward the short, and we know their houses. "
11 " We are thirteen, almost fourteen, and these streets of Sea Cliff are ours. "
12 " hands you his business card and requests that you tell your "
13 " At the Konya bus station, "
14 " Sometimes we catch them in jars for a minute before releasing them. Sometimes we wait too long to release them and find them dead. We know the names of the girls who keep the butterflies too long, and we have no idea what to do with this information. "
15 " Lazlo's mom, Ágota, and my dad had a falling out over the kinds of things siblings usually have falling outs over: money and love. My father made money and Aunt Ágota lost money. Then there was disagreement about how their mother, my grandmother, should live. My father thought a retirement home. Ágota wanted to be paid to take care f her. The argument didn't help anyone. In the end, my grandmother died anyway. "
16 " I feel a loosened Band-Aid release itself from my ankle and fall off, but I don't turn around to pick it up. I don't care about litter because I am immortal. "
17 " Despair was a thing of the past, discarded like a scarf through the window of a moving car. "
18 " Chapter 23 Chapter "
19 " They are tired of each other already. Either that, I think, or they’re going to go fuck after this. I have many different and somewhat contradictory ideas of how adult seduction works. "
