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21 " It's like we've entered a separate reality. Like now it's just the two of us, nothing else matters, no one exists. "
― Blake Nelson , Recovery Road
22 " But I let myself love him anyway. I let myself love him with all my heart. I give myself that. I tell myself I deserve it. "
23 " Those people who look so together. They’re as insecure as anyone. Maybe more so. You’re as smart as any of them. "
24 " If I had to describe Trish, I would say: “high school parking lot.” She smokes. She wears too much makeup. She probably gives great hand jobs. "
25 " Guys are like buses [...] Why get on the first one you see, when there’s another one coming right after? Or something like that. Or maybe it’s the opposite. I heard that on Oprah. "
26 " Do you ever think about the ocean?" Nick asked me."What about it?" I said."Like what could live down there? Like how there's as much life down there as up here? Maybe more?""God Lives Underwater," said someone. "That's the name of a band. They're awesome.""But seriously," Nick said, "it's like an alternate universe. Right here on our own planet.""Right here, a hundred feet from us," said Sheila."Right here in my hair," said one of the girls who had swum, pulling some sea gunk out of her wet hair.Everyone laughed quietly at that. Nick drank his beer. The wood crackled as it burned. We all stared at the black ocean. "
― Blake Nelson , They Came from Below
27 " That’s the thing: You can change things. You can repair mistakes. You can restart your whole life if you have to.But some things you never get back. Certain people. Certain moments in time when you don’t know better than to shield your heart.You don’t see those moments coming, you don’t know it when they’re happening, but later, as the plainness of life begins to show itself, you realize how important they were. You understand who really changed you, who made you what you are. "
28 " It was weird because my first couple stories had been so easy. Now it was like, the more you did it, the harder it became. But in another way, it was addicting. It was like gambling, every time you'd start another one you'd think this time I'm going to get it right.... "
― Blake Nelson , Dream School (Girl, #2)
29 " He holds me. I am his in a way he probably isn't even aware of. Boys shouldn't know what power they have. They would panic probably or just mess things up. But boys are who you give yourself to. Not your parents or your teachers or your "future". You give yourself to a boy. And then you go for long walks at night and think about them and wonder what they will do to you in the end. "
― Blake Nelson
30 " This is where I want to be now, alone with myself. Because I know that something has happened to me tonight, something that I’m not going to understand at first, something I need to just absorb and think about and get used to.This is going to be hard for me. I can’t control this. I can’t stop what it will do to me.But I want it. I want to be inside it, to feel it, forever. "
31 " Boys shouldn’t know what power they have. They would panic probably, or just mess things up. But boys are who you give yourself to. Not your parents, or your teachers, or your “future.” You give yourself to a boy.And then you go for long walks at night and think about them and wonder what they will do to you in the end. "
32 " I slung my Canon over my shoulder and strode into the empty Jetway. It felt natural, that motion, that walk through the tunnel, to the waiting plane. I felt like I was in the right place. I hear a voice, my own voice say: Welcome to your life. "
― Blake Nelson , Boy
33 " And I realized the whole thing about fashion or writing about fashion or even thinking about fashion was confidence. You had to be confident and other people had to have confidence in you. "
― Blake Nelson , Girl (Girl, #1)
34 " That was the thing about Phoebe: She seemed to need more love, and so somehow you generated more love. And all that extra love moving through you, it was like a drug, it was pure ecstasy, filling you up and then flowing into her, and then coming back to you again, creating this vortex of incredible bliss. "
― Blake Nelson , Phoebe Will Destroy You
35 " You wanted to think something lasted when you loved someone. Some part of that connection remained, that the person stayed inside you in a way. But maybe that wasn't always true. And maybe with someone like Phoebe, you didn't want them lingering on the outskirts of your heart, reminding you how unsafe the world was. Maybe it was better to forget some people completely. If you could. If that was even possible. "