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1 " I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken. "
― Amy Harmon , The Law of Moses (The Law of Moses, #1)
2 " But she wasn’t the only one who was suffering, and sometimes there is comfort in the knowledge that you don’t suffer alone, sad as that is. "
3 " He was right that I was afraid. But I didn’t think I was afraid of the truth. I was afraid of believing something that would destroy me if it turned out to be a lie. "
4 " There are laws. There are rules. And when you break them, there are consequences. Laws of nature and laws of life. Laws of love and laws of death. "
5 " My brain is already scrambled enough.”“Cracked,” I said, not thinking.“Yeah.” Moses scowled.“Well, it’s working for you.” I turned and looked at my walls. “Cracks and all. In fact, if your brain wasn’t cracked, none of the brilliance could spill out. Do you realize that? "
6 " I didn’t know if his art was helping. But Moses’s pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason. Time softens memories, sanding down the rough edges of death. But Moses’s pictures dripped with life and reminded us of our loss. "
7 " People who are afraid of the truth never find it. "
8 " I wanted to bite him hard enough to express my frustration, yet sweetly enough that he’d let me do it again. "
9 " We never saw what was obvious until we were hit over the head with it. "
10 " Those are my five greats for Georgia today. Those were my five greats yesterday and they will be tomorrow and the next day, until your kisses get old. Then I'll have to think of something else. "
11 " My brain might be cracked, but it's not just my brain. The sky is cracked too, and I can sometimes see what's on the other side. "
12 " I turned, letting her catch me. And I caught her too, wrapping my arms around her so tight that the space between us became space around us, space above us, but not space inside us. "
13 " Normal was so lost to me that I didn't even know where to look for it "
14 " We can't escape ourselves, Tag. Here, there, half-way across the world, or in a psych ward in Salt Lake City. I'm Moses and you're Tag. And that part never changes. So either we figure it out here or we figure it out there. But we still gotta deal. And death won't change that. "
15 " Everyone always talks about being color blind. And I get that. I do. But maybe instead of being color blind, we should celebrate color, in all its shades. It kind of bugs me that we’re supposed to ignore our differences like we don’t see them, when seeing them doesn’t have to be a negative. "
16 " Any time you start feeling sorry for yourself or you go into a rant about how bad life sucks, you immediately have to name five greats. "
17 " If you don’t love, then nobody gets hurt. It’s easy to leave. It’s easy to lose. It’s easy to let go. "
18 " People liked religion but they didn't want to have to exercise any faith. Religion was comforting with all its structure and its rules. It made people feel safe. But faith wasn't safe. Faith was hard and uncomfortable and forced people to step out on a limb. "
19 " If I were to paint you, I would use every color. "
20 " Time softens memories, sanding down the rough edges of death. "
