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1 " I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he'd look at me the way boys do in films, as if I'm beautiful. "
― , Before I Die
2 " I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you. "
3 " I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again! "
4 " Do you want this to be a love story? "
― , You Against Me
5 " It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.''Why are you saying that?''She might need permission to die, Cal.''I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission. "
6 " It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house.It's really, really true.A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I'm thinking. It fills me up like a silent scream. "
7 " Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.''No.''It might be important.''It might make her die. "
8 " Help me, Mikey, she wanted to say. I’m afraid. More afraid than you’d ever believe.’ And he’d take her hand and they’d fly across the rooftops and up into space and sit on some planet and watch a double sunrise or maybe a star being born or some other event that no human had ever seen, her head on his shoulder, his arm around her. And she’d tell him everything. "
9 " Death straps me to the hospital bed, claws its way onto my chest and sits there.I didn't know it would hurt this much. I didn't know that everything good that's ever happened in my life would be emptied out by it. "
10 " Moments. All gathering towards this one. "
11 " We make patterns, we share moments. "
12 " Keep breathing. Just keep doing it. It's easy. In and out. "
13 " Hold my hand. Don't let go. "
14 " I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things. "
15 " Statement: A girl and a boy jump into a river. The boy swims over to the girl and says, "God, it's cold."Question: What's the probability they will kiss? "
16 " Is this how it is for everyone?' she whispered.'No.''How do you know?''I just do. I've never felt this with anyone before.''Serious?''Serious. That isn't a line.''Kiss me,' she said.He did. Everywhere. "
17 " Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear. "
18 " I like you," he said.He made it sound as if she was bound to disagree with him. She nodded. His face said he was telling her something very important.He said, "I mean it. Whatever happens, you have to believe that. "
19 " Parents don’t know their children at all.No one knows anyone, in fact. "
20 " Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind. "