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1 " He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever. "
― E. Lockhart , We Were Liars
2 " Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you. "
3 " Better than chocolate, being with you last night. Silly me, I thought that nothing was better than chocolate. "
4 " They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing. "
5 " See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be "
6 " One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be. "
7 " When blood dripped on my bare feet or poured over the book I was reading, he was kind. "
8 " Then he pulled out a handgun and shot me in the chest. I was standing on the lawn and I fell. The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed. Blood gushed rhythmically from my open wound,then from my eyes,my ears,my mouth.It tasted like salt and failure. The bright red shame of being unloved soaked the grass in front of our house, the bricks of the path, the steps of the porch. My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout. "
9 " For the old people in my family—Mummy, the aunties, Granddad—the accumulation of beautiful objects is a life goal.Whoever dies with the most stuff wins.Wins what? is what I’d like to know. "
10 " My head and shoulders melted first, followed by my hips and knees. Before long I was a puddle, soaking into the pretty cotton prints. I drenched the quilt she never finished, rusted the metal parts of her sewing machine. I was pure liquid loss... "
11 " Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before. "
12 " Be a little kinder than you have to. "
13 " Never eat anything bigger than your ass. "
14 " Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right "
15 " suffer. you could say it means endure, but thats not exactly right "
16 " The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to. "
17 " The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. "
18 " Go on, strike, said the witch, smiling. Fire is beautiful. Nothing bad will happen. "
19 " In fact, the mark of tragedy became, with time, a mark of glamour. "
20 " Our kiss was electric and soft,and tentative and certain,terrifying and exactly right.I felt the love rush from me to Gat and from Gat to me.We were warm and shivering,and young and ancient,and alive.I was thinking, It's true. We already love each other.We already do. "
