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121 " I wanted the world to sit back and listen up, and let me explain to it that when someone is sad and hopeless, the last thing they need to feel is that they are the only ones in the world with that feeling. So, if you feel sorry for someone, don’t pretend to be happy. Don’t pretend to care only about their problems. People aren’t stupid. Not all of us, anyway. "
― John Corey Whaley , Where Things Come Back
122 " someone who wants to trust everyone so much that they don't see a lie when it's slapping them right in the face. "
― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior
123 " Is that what you think I’m going to do? Snap and kill you?” he asked. “Not me, you won’t. I keep mace in my purse. You never know what kind of creep’ll be shopping for a house.” “Wait … what?” “Invite "
124 " he was having mild to severe panic attacks up to three times daily. It was hell. "
125 " Solomon was gay. He'd realized it sometime around the age of twelve. IT wasn't a hard thing to figure out, really. He saw boys and girls differently. And her preferred seeing one to the other. It's simple like that when you're young. "
126 " Secrets...will boil under your skin until it feels like every time you speak, every time you look in the mirror, every time you hug someone or kiss someone or tell someone you love them, it feels like you're going to die. "
― John Corey Whaley , Noggin
127 " (N)o matter how often you see or talk to someone, no matter how much you know them or don't know them, you always fill up some space in their lives that can't ever be replaced the right way again once you leave it. "
128 " Uma vez meu irmão me disse que Deus era o melhor músico do mundo, porque ele juntou todos os sons da natureza e deu dedos a pessoas como Jimi Hendrix e cérebro a John Lennon.- E ele também é o melhor escritor. - Gabriel me disse.- Por quê ? - perguntei. - Porque ele dá a cada bom escritor algo com que lutar e tentar resolveu por meio da escrita. É genial. "
129 " And maybe it was because Lisa had been gone for so long or because fumes were leaking from the van's potentially toxic motor, but that was the night Solomon realized how he really felt about Clark Robbins. He'd ignored it for weeks -- that feeling he got in his stomach when Clark was around, that rushing in his chest that he'd mistaken for panic so many times, but had actually been something else, something he hadn't felt before. Clark didn't care where he was or where he was going. And even though Solomon was afraid to call it love, what else could it be? It was there. It was real. And if he didn't watch out, it would eventually find a way to ruin everything. "
130 " Most people would rather do nothing than risk doing the wrong thing-that's something Solomon learned a long time before shutting them all out. "
131 " I'm not sure why so many people get addicted to pain pills because, at a certain point, not feeling anything becomes much more painful than the disease eating away at your cells. "
132 " She did something instead of nothing. And suddenly destiny didn't seem all that far-fetched an idea. "
133 " But in the parent department, he had won the lottery. So, he'd always known that when he finally told them, they'd make him feel like it was no big deal, like it didn't change a thing. They'd say they loved him just like he was, that there was no way they couldn't.And that's exactly what they did. "
134 " That's how I knew I loved her so much, because not loving her didn't make any sense once I'd known what it felt like. "
135 " She just looked right at him the only way she ever had, like he was the only other person in the world. "
136 " When one of us is dying, they say a part of all of us is. I think that's why it hurts. We go our whole lives losing little chunks until we can't lose any more of them. "
137 " (I)t's too easy to get hung up on people the way we do. I mean, that we all get one person to be ours and that's it. We should look at it differently. We all get lots of people. And maybe we don't always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all...We all get people that help us make sense of the world, right? We just have to figure out how to keep them however we can. "