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1 " Love? Does love make you feel ill, like you’re being tossed about on a stormy sea? Does it steal your sleep and make you feel like your insides are on fire? "
― Sandhya Menon , Of Curses and Kisses (St. Rosetta's Academy, #1)
2 " Kiran was one of those guys who thought Jaya’s X chromosome stood for “xplain things to me. "
3 " Dear Kiran, I AM SorRy mY faMILy siTUAtion haS Been sO HarD on You. WHAT Can I DO to MaKe It BetTer? YoU Are The GUY, so CleArLY You KnOw BeST. "
4 " Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty "
5 " It's in the darkest corners that things seem the scariest. "
6 " Haven’t you ever lied for someone you loved? Even if it meant hurting someone else. "
7 " Just yesterday she said Elliot and she had lain on the hilly green by the astronomy building and just watched the clouds float by. The clouds. Float by. Like Isha had ever cared about floating clouds before. "
8 " Huh. We’ll be together the entire semester. Every class.” He said it abruptly "
9 " Smiling, Grey said, "Happily ever after. "
10 " The only real place Grey felt safe, like he couldn't hurt anyone, was in the mountains. The great towering stone, jutting out from the earth like vengeful gods, felt indestructible. They'd been there millennia before Grey, and they'd be here long after he was gone. "
11 " He hadn't been prepared for the pain. Gray had forgotten what it meant, to care about people, to let them have the power to hurt you. He'd let her in; he'd given her the keys to his heart and she'd tossed them carelessly over her shoulder and walked away. "
12 " What he did know was that she'd taught him, with her steady kindness, with her unfailing warmth, that he wasn't what his father believed he was. What Grey had come to believe he was too. [...] She'd shown him he was capable of more, that he had so much uncovered promise within him. And, weirdly enough, he'd begun to believe her. "
13 " Looking at you is like looking at the rising sun after the longest darkest night. You bring me so much pure joy. I don't think I knew what happiness was until I was laughing with you about Carter's beard and it's unerring resemblance to the Juniper-Hawthorn Rust fungus. Or learning about bacterial immunology while we were at that club in Denver. But it's not just about the things you say- it's the way you are in the world. If I'm the Ice Queen, Rahul, you're the warm waters I want to melt into. Saying I've never felt this way about anyone before is an understatement, but when I look at you... I see the future. And if that's not love, I don't know what is. "