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1 " Half the chocolate bar was stuffed in my mouth when it dawned on me: I was totally going to break out from crushing that hard. "
― Emilia Ares , Love and Other Sins
2 " It was a dangerous thing for me to know what I wanted. "
3 " I have an idea. Next time, when you’re randomly freaking out about, you know, the world rotating and stuff, what we do is we come here, and we climb on this pendulum thing. And problem solved . . . we’ll be the only two people on the planet who are standing still while everyone else is turning. "
4 " It was a strange sensation, the thawing of a frozen heart. "
5 " What do I feel? Like a large winged creature dropped you into my life but forgot to leave the operating manual. "
6 " It was intimate . . . a strange and beautiful feeling. We were breathing life into each other. "
7 " But you have to push back against the fear and the only way to do that is by arming yourself with knowledge and practice. Why? Because when it’s all over, even if you die and are rotting in the ground, at least you’ll know you didn’t leave quietly. "
8 " Sometimes, there would be a finely wrapped package covered in exquisite lace and rococo paper, but inside was a steaming heap of shit. You’d be looking around wondering, what’s that smell? And sometimes it turned out to be nothing but a big old box of Tyler, tied in a shiny bow. "
9 " Unfortunately, I was realizing more and more that to understand my own privilege was to know the misfortune of others. "
10 " I felt a powerful compulsion to reach out and touch her, as though her body was a familiar place—as though she’s someone I’d known all my life, someone I was relieved to see again. "