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21 " I wasn't athletic and had no desire to work out, so I watched what I ate. Correction: I ate what I wanted and felt guilty about it later. "
― Megan Miranda , Fracture (Fracture, #1)
22 " Truth is, I don't know. I don't know... what I'm doing. Or why I'm doing it," he said. Which was the worst excuse in the history of excuses. "I don't know what's up or down anymore. I feel like I'm..." He stopped speaking and winced."Drowning," I said. "You were going to say you feel like you're drowning."He nodded. I wonder how many people I took with me when I feel into the lake. How many sunk with me. I thought I had been alone under the water, but maybe I wasn't. "
23 " I hoped he'd take his dog and drive down to the ocean. I hoped there was still time. I pictured him sitting on the gray rocks with the waves crashing and spraying white foam. Maybe he'd hear something in the roar of the ocean, feel some limitless power, believe that there's something greater. Something more. Maybe his heaven was at the coast, with a dog's head in his lap, with nothing but water and depth from there to the horizon." -Delaney "
24 " I think...I think its always been you who was dying,"- Delaney "
25 " We were in a pit. Fitting. This was, after all, my hell. This pit around the lake. The lake that had taken so much. My friendship with Decker. My humanity. Quite nearly my life. And I was so angry with it. I wasn't scared anymore. I was furious. "
26 " When I went from feeling nothing to everything and couldn't stop screaming because it turned out the everything was blinding pain. "
27 " That hell can be temporary. That there's a way out. "
28 " Funny how everything can change in an instant. From death to life. From empty to full. From darkness to light. "
29 " I wasn't sure who I was most scared of at the moment. The stranger I was learning about too quickly, or the woman I'd known my entire life that was quickly becoming a stranger. "
30 " Maybe hell was just an absence of something. A void waiting to be filled. "
31 " Funny how everything can change in an instant. "
32 " Or maybe I just wasn't looking. I hadn't known that a light could be a feeling and a sound could be a color and a kiss could be both a question and an answer. And that heaven could be the ocean or a person or this moment or something else entirely. But today, heaven was a wood-floored room with blue walls and a messy desk and Decker not letting go. He was still holding onto me. "
33 " I breathed in deeply, feeling immediately at ease. I loved the smell of books. I kept breathing in until I felt too light, like I was inhaling all the knowledge from the books and there was no place for the information to go. "
34 " Then there was this empty silence-a hole in the noisy crowd. Troy watched me, Dad watched Troy watching me, and I watched Dad watching Troy watching me. I cleared my throat and said, "It's getting late. "
35 " I'm not athletic and have no desire to work out, so I watch what I eat. Correction: I eat what I want and feel guilty about it later. "
36 " nothing could be worse than anything real. Like the dark. Nothing can be the most terrifying thing of all. "