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21 " There's something backward about living in a place so obsessed with the past; it's like everyone's given up on the idea of a future. "
― Lauren Oliver , Vanishing Girls
22 " And yet in only a few hours we've managed to erase her almost entirely. All of her things - bought, received, painstakingly selected; her tastes and preferences; all the random stuff accumulated over the years - all of it sorted, trashed, or packed up in less than a day. How easily we get erased. "
23 " You see, even then, I knew. It wasn't a trick. It wasn't a show. Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air. Sometimes people stop loving you. And that's the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light. "
24 " There’s a fundamental rule of the universe that goes like this: if you’re running late, you will miss your bus. You’ll also miss your bus if it’s raining or if you have somewhere really important to go, like the SATs or a driver’s test. Dara and I have a word for that kind of luck: crapdiment. Just crap smeared on top of more crap. "
25 " Still more people are arriving:so many people, it makes you wonder how all of them could exist, how there can be so many individual lives and stories and needs and disappointments. "
26 " And for a split second I find her, silhouetted by the sky, arms outstretched like she's making snow angels in the air or simply laughing, turning in place; for a split second, she comes to me as the clouds, the sun, the wind touching my face and telling me that somehow, someday, it will be okay. "
27 " I hope she's alive. Even more, I believe. "
28 " La cosa buffa del quasi-morire è che poi tutti si aspettano che tu viva a bordo del treno della felicità, che passi il tempo a rincorrere le farfalle su prati verdi o a guardare arcobaleni nelle macchie di benzina sulla strada. È un miracolo! Diranno tutti, con uno sguardo pieno di aspettative. È come quando ricevi in regalo un maglione sgualcito e sformato e non devi deludere la nonna con una strana smorfia quando scarti la scatola.Dopo tutto questa è la vita: piena di buche e grovigli e punti nei quali bloccarsi. Scomoda e irritante. Un regalo che non avevi mai chiesto, mai voluto e mai scelto. Un regalo che dovrai indossare con eccitazione, giorno dopo giorno, anche quando preferiresti startene nel tuo letto a far nulla.La verità è questa: non servono particolari requisiti per quasi-morire, e nemmeno per quasi-vivere. "
29 " Everyone has the pushed and prodded and tugged look that rich people have, like they're just giant pieces of taffy, ready to be molded. "
30 " I love you. Mom loves you. Dad loves you.That doesn't count. You guys have to love me. It's practically illegal not to. You probably just love me so you won't go to jail. "
31 " Magnetism, my chem teacher would call it. The seeking for a thing of its pair. "
32 " There are many words in the English language that you never want to hear you father say. Enema. Orgasm. Disappointed. "
33 " There’s a metaphor in that somewhere—like all of life is about ending up somewhere you didn’t expect, and learning to just be happy with it. "
34 " But his enthusiasm is infectious. The whole park is buzzing with it; a sound perceived but not exactly heard, a sense of anticipation like the moment just before all the crickets start singing at night. "
35 " That's what magic is, Nick," she says, her voice soft. "It's just faith... "
36 " School is only hard when you care about doing well. And when you're the stupid one in the family, no one expects you to do well. "
37 " ¨Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air.Sometimes people stop loving you. And that´s the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light¨ "
38 " But just for a little while, the forget to know it. They believe "
39 " You see, even then, I knew. It wasn’t a trick. It wasn’t a show. Sometimes day and night reverse. Sometimes up goes down and down goes up, and love turns into hate, and the things you counted on get washed out from under your feet, leaving you pedaling in the air. Sometimes people stop loving you. And that’s the kind of darkness that never gets fixed, no matter how many moons rise again, filling the sky with a weak approximation of light. "
40 " Did you ever notice that he's undeniably fuckable? "