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1 " She was so pretty, not the kind of pretty that hits you at first, but the kind that blooms the longer you were with her. Like a flower, she was always like a flower to me. "
― K.B. Ezzell , Even Skyscrapers Must End: A Neon Dream
2 " She told him once, I think they were drunk, that he could never keep a garden until he learned how to love pretty things without destroying them. "
3 " Humans feel pain, they feel it hard and heavy and deep, and that right there is the only proof of life you will ever need. "
4 " Some people like the dreaming better than the coming true part. They hate when things work out, they almost expect them to go wrong, and they never know what to do when their cynicism is proven wrong. "
5 " I gave in to a deep and healthy laughter that must have added ten years to my life and given birth to a thousand blue butterflies somewhere in the world. "
6 " Boys get real scared when girls say everything at once. "
7 " Her laugh was my favorite sound, and I think I was her favorite reason to laugh. "
8 " Music is the only place where time does not exist. "
9 " Why does everything move so fast when you are angry? "
10 " I knew never to trust a sweet promise. "
11 " The city was alive to a nonsensical degree. Every color was so absurdly saturated that I thought it was all kind of like a dream, more a painting or an art deco interpretation of a city than an actual city. "
12 " My mother always said that plain can be pretty too. "
13 " I don't think you can really judge a person until you've seen them out of context. Out of their element, you know? When they're scared and free, that's when who they really are comes out. That's when you really see them, know them. "
14 " And I stood there for a while in my sighing senselessness, waiting for her to make like a gorgeous flower and kiss me or something. "
15 " Damn, if I could go back, I would say a lot of things. And I would laugh more. "
16 " She was the kind of person they write songs about, the kind of girl who saves a man. "
17 " The idea of watching her walk away, taking every happy thing with her, was suddenly the very worst thing I could imagine. "
18 " Dammit, life is strange. "
19 " I'm no princess. "
20 " And I think the city fell madly in love with her just then. "
