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21 " The bullies never remember, but the bullied never forget. "
― Michelle Hodkin , The Becoming of Noah Shaw (The Shaw Confessions, #1)
22 " Mara takes my hand. “Noah Shaw, will you impregnate me immediately? "
23 " I’m rather sentimental about the ruins—as a child, I halfheartedly attempted suicide there now and again, always returning from post-tourist-hours expeditions with knees winking with cuts, and the occasional fracture or two. "
24 " A thing I loved about her immediately, though, she looked back at me completely without pity. "
25 " No vegetarians round the table, I trust?” Goose asks. Jamie tips his head at me. “Shaw only eats pussy—““Fuck off. "
26 " Current mood: David Foster Wallace meets Amy Winehouse. "
27 " Unable to sleep, I clear the untouched mess left in the wake of the inquisition on my own and am in the kitchen burning toast and making tea when Mara descends the stairs at dawn, desultory. The sun fades in through the windows, pale and weak. ´Morning,` I say.´God is dead.`´Coffee?`´Fuck you.`´Again?`She folds her arms on the counter and lets her head fall. "
28 " You’re my preferred method of self harm. "
29 " We were not a foursome. For that, we’d need to be bonded by secrets, and I shared none of mine. Secrets cut you off from everyone else, so I would always suggest the vast majority of our exploits to mask that I never could quite connect with them in the first place. Insert a stifled sob here, would you? "
30 " And then I turn away from them all, away from my father, away from the sodden remains of my family, to Mara. "
31 " When someone is hiding a secret in a house, something changes in the air. Unspoken words, half finished smiles, eggshell steps—they distort reality, they muffle truth. "
32 " I’m getting high on the scent of her, when she says, “We’re home.” If I’d been standing, her words would have brought me to my knees. "
33 " I stare at her above me and want her to pry me open, to crack my ribs, lick my heart, break my bones and suck out the marrow. I want to live inside of her. "
34 " Have you seen the rest of the flat?”A single shake.“Would you like to?”A single nod.“Follow.” I turn away from her and pass the office without opening the door.We turn the first corner. “How many bedrooms did you say there are?”“Six.”“Which one’s ours?”“Tonight, all of them. "
35 " Literally a disaster. "
36 " You can’t keep a secret from the person you love and expect it not to change him, too. She doesn’t trust me with something, which makes me distrust her, and that makes our hands miss each other when we pass something over the table. It makes my mouth just miss hers when I lean to kiss her lips and end up with cheek instead. "
37 " I wagered my heart on her and lost, again and again, but still I would do it. I could never bet on anyone else. "
38 " Your strong jaw, your perfectly mussed-up hair, the lean but somehow still muscular body, the height—you’re practically Captain America.”“Except English.”“Even worse! "
39 " Or fuck it, hakuna matata. "
40 " She hitches up onto the bed, her fraying denimed legs dangling from crossed knees. “You know I know you like to watch.” I reach her. Uncross those legs. “I do.” “So watch. "