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81 " Where did you go?' His voice drops just slightly and loses even the suggestion of a smile.He's watching me like he's not sure he's allowed to ask question, and he's not even sure he wants the answer. I can almost see grandfather's word and josh's doubt about them swimming in his head. On every side of me are the lights and the tools and the wood and the boots and the boy I want to see forever. And if the my Sea of Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.I don't say anything right away, because I just want one minute to look at his face before I gave him my last secret. And then I tell him.'Your garage. "
― Katja Millay , The Sea of Tranquility
82 " I may not be allowed to love her, but that doesn't mean I'll let anyone hurt her. "
83 " I've done goodbyes before, and I can do this one, too. Somehow this one hurts worse than the others; because this one I could prevent if I wanted to, since I'm the one saying it. This goodbye comes with a choice the way none of the others did. "
84 " My mother's hope is a weapon. "
85 " True story. "
86 " Nothing else matters. If I had a penny right now I'd wish that were true; I want to believe it more than I've ever wanted to believe anything. "
87 " Josh Bennett laughs, and for one minute, everything is right in the world. "
88 " I don’t know anything about art so I can’t tell you that it’s watercolor or acrylic or that it’s on canvas or anything art related at all. I can tell you that it’s a painting of a hand, my hand, turned up and opened to the world and that it reaches into my body and rips out everything that’s left. Because in the palm, right in the center, is the pearl button I never reached. "
89 " I'm not sure how long we sit in Josh's truck, holding hands, surrounded by darkness and unspoken regrets. But it's long enough to know that there are no stories or secrets in the world worth holding onto more than his hand. "
90 " You can't change the rules and think everyone else is just going to keep playing. "
91 " Sometimes it's easier to pretend nothing is wrong than to face the fact that everything is wrong, but you're powerless to do anything about it. "
92 " It’s a chair. Stop overanalyzing it. I’m not selling it and I’m not giving it to someone else. I made it for you. It’s yours. "
93 " I say Sunshine and then she shatters.All the pieces of all the girls go flying and I’m holding the one who’s left. "
94 " I’d trade my hand all over again to take back everything I did and hear him call me Sunshine. "
95 " It amazes me how people are so afraid of what can happen in the dark, but they don't give a second thought about their safety during the day; as if the sun offers some sort of ultimate protection from all the evil in the world. It doesn't... Daylight won't protect you from anything. Bad things happen all the time; they don't wait until after dinner. "
96 " Because it's good when you find one that does mean something. Makes all the empty ones worthwhile. "
97 " You get halfway through with your life and you realize you haven't done the things you wanted to do or become what you'd thought you'd become and it's disheartening. "
98 " If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay. "
99 " I reach up to brush my hair back out of my eyes so I can look around and attempt to determine what the hell is going on. The only three things that I know for certain took place last night are that one -- small elves climbed up my body and tied my hair into a mass of tiny knots, two -- I must have slept with my mouth open because something crawled into it and died and three -- I was sucked through a vortex into some animated world where an anvil was dropped on my head. "
100 " Immoral people debating the existence of God is always a crowd pleaser. "