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The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1) QUOTES

The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1) QUOTES

1 " Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earned it by living through it. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

2 " When you will you learn that we all have our place, our parts to play?”

I scoffed, wincing as the slices on my back pulled. “When will you learn that it’s up to you if you play those parts or not? "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

3 " Fly away home to a better place where everything is better, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

4 " Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it’s beautiful. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

5 " There is no gravity. The only thing holding me to this planet is you. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

6 " There was a tempest brewing in his eyes that I wasn’t sure I would survive if I stayed in his gaze too long. But he told me with his sure hold that I could trust him and not to run before I’d given him a chance to show him what it was like to ride out the storm. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

7 " But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

8 " The fact that you can't see how much you're worth makes you worth so much more." She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn't know the words to ask. I continued. "A diamond doesn't know how much it's worth; it's just beautiful because it exists. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

9 " He said that people don’t make mistakes, they just make a learning curve for everybody else. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

10 " His eyes held me in place, both of us never wavering, letting the air around us crackle with the words we’d spoken and the words yet to speak, and the knowledge that this could, in all honesty, become nothing between us. Or it could become everything. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

11 " The loudest voices are often the ones that don’t even know they’re screaming. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

12 " You are worth more than what is in your pockets. You’re worth what’s in your mind and what’s in your heart. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

13 " Give me the breath in your lungs, all the steps you took to get here, the only heart you got, your very soul. I want all there is, Soph. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

14 " The fact that you can’t see how much you’re worth makes you worth so much more.” She opened her mouth once, her brow bunched, but nothing came out. She didn’t know the words to ask. I continued. “A diamond doesn’t know how much it’s worth; it’s just beautiful because it exists. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

15 " I’m going to be in a better place. I’m going to see Daddy. But you are going to help people. You are the helper, Sophelia, the one who will take all the bad and ugly and make it what it was supposed to be in the first place. You will bring this world to its knees one day.” I opened my mouth to say…something. “I—” “One day you’ll get to fly, Soph, just like Pan and Wendy. Fly away home to a better place where everything is brighter, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave. But right now? Don’t mourn me,” she whispered. “I love you and I planned this. All is as it should be. One day, you will understand. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

16 " One day you’ll get to fly, Soph, just like Pan and Wendy. Fly away home to a better place where everything is brighter, boys are never lost, and mothers don’t ever leave. But right now? Don’t mourn me,” she "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

17 " I envy you even more, Maxton.” He smirked, trying to play it off. “Oh? And why’s that?” “Because your soul, on this soulless planet, sticks out like one star in a starless sky. And it’s beautiful. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

18 " Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak, winking is the star language, but the little ones still wonder. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

19 " life would be a big, awesome journey or it would be nothing at all. Live like you’re made of stone or like you’re made of glass, but pick one. Have what you want, go after them, but want the things you’ve got. Bet with the whole pot or walk away with a smile. Don’t ever regret as you look back. And always tell the truth because you can’t ever run faster than a lie. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)

20 " I won’t be like every other male in your life, Sophelia.” My heart nearly stopped and I felt hot all over. I realized I was swooning. “I won’t just take things from you if you haven’t given them to me.” I gulped. Oh, no. He had to stop. I had to harden myself against him right now. I could feel myself getting even softer, mush, cookie dough, or what I imagined cookie dough to be anyway. I couldn’t have that. I had to be a stone. I couldn’t afford to be soft for him or anyone else. No more games. This man had to stop trying to make me fall in love with him. "

― Shelly Crane , The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1)