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1 " I told you before, that there are different ways to fail. Imperfection is inevitable. That’s life. But it doesn’t sound to me like you failed at all, Eve. It sounds like your dream broke, and you’ve been picking up shattered pieces, and blaming yourself when your hands bleed. "
― Talia Hibbert , Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)
2 " Your abilities lie in the places people usually overlook, so you’ve been convinced you don’t have any at all. But you’re smart, and you’re capable, and if people struggle to see that, it’s their problem, not yours. "
3 " I’m going to stay and I’m going to love you and I’m going to try. You taught me how much that matters. "
4 " Sometimes, being convenient instead of real was exhausting. So maybe from now on, she’d stop. "
5 " You're not just my sunshine; you're the sun. "
6 " You won’t get your head out of your ass? Aren’t you concerned about potential suffocation? "
7 " It sounds like your dream broke, and you've been picking up shattered pieces and blaming yourself when your hands bleed. "
8 " A handsome man is a fearsome liability to everyone but himself. "
9 " I don’t know which half of my brain is the smart half and which half is all emotional and shit.""Maybe the smart half is all emotional and shit.""Yes, I’d been afraid of that. "
10 " Diaries were horribly organized and awfully prescriptive. They involved dates and plans and regular entries and the suffocating weight of commitment. Journals, on the other hand, were deliciously wild and lawless things. One could abandon a journal for weeks, then crack it open one Saturday evening under the influence of wine and marshmallows without an ounce of guilt. "
11 " She used to reach, once upon a time. But it hurt so terribly to fall. "
12 " A flood of tenderness and affection, gentle, yet powerful enough to swallow entire cities whole. Familiar, but magnified. Known, but intense. The sort of love you read about in books. "
13 " What if I’d killed somebody?”“I wouldn’t be surprised, and I would visit you in prison if necessary.”She gasped, all feigned outrage. “You wouldn’t offer to help me hide the body?”Jacob’s lips quirked without permission. “You’ve been here quite a while Sunshine, and there’s no police sniffing around, so I imagine you hid it just fine yourself. "
14 " Jacob set his jaw. He didn't appreciate Spock comments. He's received a lot of them over his lifetime, and he knew exactly what they were supposed to imply, and they made him want to throttle people before sitting them down for a long and detailed chat on why the wold would be a much better place if they stopped congratulating themselves on being normal and started to accept that there were countless different normals, and Jacob's kind was just as fine as everyone else's. "
15 " No. You are divine. You are impossible to get enough of. Perhaps some people would disagree, but those people don’t especially matter, because you’re mine. "
16 " I told you before,” Jacob said into the silence, “that there are different ways to fail. Imperfection is inevitable. That’s life. But it doesn’t sound to me like you’ve failed at all, Eve. It sounds like your dream broke, and you’ve been picking up shattered pieces and blaming yourself when your hands bleed. "
17 " With everyone except her sisters, she felt a slight pressure to perform, to hide away the most annoying parts of herself in order to be liked "
18 " Some thoughts were too big to accept all at once. She shoved this one frantically to the back of her mind before it could crack her wide open, but traces of it still lingered—like the ghost of a sparkler after you’d waved it through the air. Bright and dangerous and not-really-there. "
19 " Are you sure you didn’t come here to kill me?""Quite sure.""But you’d be so good at it. You half-murder me on a regular basis completely by accident. "
20 " The world would be a much better place if they stopped congratulating themselves on being normal and started to accept that there were countless different normals. "
