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21 " I'll never forget Jonah's face. A light poured out of him and became the spirit of the room, like a genie released from a bottle after centuries of darkness. "
― Natalie Standiford , How to Say Goodbye in Robot
22 " I have a rotary phone from the sixties, it take forever to dial, which keeps me from making impulsive calls. "
23 " Those who love only half of him do not live him at all. "
24 " Before he sat down, my internal heat-seekers sensed what was coming my way: deep blue eyes that melted girls like Velveeta in a microwave. I tried to resist those microwave eyes, but sometimes there's no defense against them. I had a feeling I'd be seeing him weeping over my coffin later that night. "
25 " The whole summer stretched out before us, long, hot, endless.September flashed like a tiny red warning light in the distance, but if I squinted, I could ignore it. I decided to squint for a while.'It's going to be wonderful,' I said. "
26 " I reached for the phone and dialed his number. I listened to it ring. It rang on and on. I imagined the phone crying out in his empty room.I didn't count the rings, but it felt like hundreds. Could Mr. Tate hear them echoing through his house? Was I torturing him? Making him scream in frustration, pressing his hands to his ears to block out the noise? If he wanted to make the ringing stop, all he had to do was pick up.Maybe he had unplugged Jonah's phone. Maybe he couldn't hear the ringing at all. "
27 " I almost can't believe you won first place, because the painting deserves it so much, and people who deserve to win hardly ever do. "
28 " He's more of a Death person than a Dinner Roll person... "
29 " I don't care, I don't care, I don't care what they think. "
30 " I think ghostliness is a good quality. "
31 " I just wanted to say something about him, to shoot his spirit out over the airwaves and see what it will do. Maybe he'll come to one of you and give you something you need. Help you get rid of the blues, or keep the sun from catching you crying. A lot of you believe in ghosts. I've heard you say so. "
32 " he's stuck with them, so he makes the best of a bad situation. he's a hero because he makes something good out of a life he doesn't want. "
33 " Sounds pretty bad. Are you sure about this?""Oh, I'm sure.""Well, I don't know what we can do to prepare, except say our prayers.""Good luck with that, Herb. God died in 1945. "
34 " Tom was okay, but we were just pretending to like each other, hoping that eventually, if we pretended hard enough, it would turn real. Maybe it would and maybe it wouldn't. But Jonah was already real. Even Matthew was real, though I'd never seen him. And they made me real. "
35 " I missed him desperately, even though he’d said he hated me, even though his anger—the rampage at his house, the X through his yearbook page, the cruel way he withdrew from everyone—scared me. I didn’t care if he wasn’t my boyfriend, or even my friend. He was my Jonah. I felt more alone without him now than I’d ever felt before I met him. My life had a hole in it. "
36 " How do you define a boyfriend? If a boyfriend is the first person you think about when you wake up in the morning and the last face you see before you fall asleep, then I was in love with Jonah. But if a boyfriend had to involve physical chemistry and kissing and sex and stuff, then, no, he wasn’t that. "
37 " Before he sat down, my internal heat-seekers sensed what was coming my way:deep blue eyes that melted girls like Velveeta in a microwave. "
38 " In a romantic comedy, I would have been able to wipe all his troubles away with a single kiss. But that wasn't going to happen—not the kiss, not the troubles vanishing with it. I felt so close to him, but I didn't want to kiss him. And I didn't get the sense that he wanted to kiss me. "