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1 " What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year. "
― Scott Westerfeld , Afterworlds (Afterworlds #1)
2 " The universe is math on fire. "
3 " First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing. "
4 " Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began. "
5 " And I kind of love it that you want to know everything. "
6 " ...this is life. Right here in this room, with you, is life. "
7 " You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears. "
8 " Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need. "
9 " More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth. "
10 " But I feel more real when I'm around her. Like I'm not fading. "
11 " The best way to know a city is to eat it. "
12 " Being an author sucks, doesn't it? It's like telling a joke and nobody laughs for two years. "
13 " Real life doesn’t have many happy endings. Why shouldn’t books make up the difference? "
14 " Hiding from the truth was worse than being lied to. "
15 " Just remember, the things we write, they aren't always really us. "
16 " Being fathomed was even better than being flattered, it turned out. "
17 " In a novel you always knew the moment when something Happened, when someone Changed. But real life was full of gradual, piecemeal, continuous transformation. It was full of accidents and undefineables, and things that just happened on their own. The only certainty was 'It's complicated,' whether or not unicorns tolerated your touch. "
18 " Sleep is a little slice of death. "
19 " ...but loving had left her skinless. "
20 " Blurbs don’t work anymore!” was another. “You should make sure that the quotable lines of dialogue in your book never exceed a hundred and forty characters!” seemed at best debatable. "
