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21 " I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you. "
― Jodi Picoult , Sing You Home
22 " When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies. "
23 " It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do with the subtitles flowing beneath you. We are so careful not to touch, although once upon a time, I slept plastered to him in our bed, like lichen on a rock. We are two strangers who knows every shameful secret, every hidden freckle, every fatal flaw in each other. "
24 " We Pisces, we're a special breed. "
25 " Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he's sick of doing all the work during group projects. Sometimes, it's better to sort like with like. "
26 " I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong. "
27 " I grew up in a household where we didn't really talk about our feelings, and where the only reason you went to a doctor was because you'd accidentally cut off a limb with a chain saw. "
28 " Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be. "
29 " But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail. "
30 " How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever? "
31 " When you love someone, you don't see parts of him you don't like. "
32 " There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see. "
33 " The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea of feelings. "
34 " Many trees have died so that the Catholic Church can preach against homosexuality. "
35 " I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart. "
36 " never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring "
37 " Music is the language of memory "
38 " I imagine having that sixth sense, the certainty that what I'm looking for is within reach, even if it's still hidden. "
39 " I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, that acrobatic feat of love where everything is turned upside down and yet they are both still able to keep their balance. "
40 " When you are attracted to people, it’s because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most. "