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1 " How can you miss someone who’s right beside you? "
― Ann Aguirre , Wanderlust (Sirantha Jax, #2)
2 " Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts. "
3 " He has to take me as I am, broken bits and all. "
4 " We find heroes, not on battlefields, but in hospitals that tend the injured. Sometimes I think it’s easier to fight than it is to heal. "
5 " While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does. "
6 " I don't believe in love at all," he returns, equally quiet. "It's just a name people give the endorphins that spring up after some really hot fucking, and the justification they use to manipulate the shit out of each other afterward. "
7 " Does changing for the better absolve you of all the wicked shit you did before?No. March fills my head like a warm glow. Instead you receive the twin delights of guilt and regret. "
8 " I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises. "
9 " It’s what you do that counts, not what you consider doing. "
10 " The first impression scares the shit out of me, but it’s breathtaking, too, like when you push off a cliff and feel the wind against your face. At that point, you’re not thinking of anything but free fall. "
11 " ...afraid of damn near everything. But I refuse to let it paralyze me. I won't be the woman who cowers behind four walls, never taking chances. I want to die like I've lived. I always wanted to be larger than life. "
12 " A divided heart offers a strange sensation. "
13 " To my mind, modern life just offers too many numbers that we're supposed to keep track of. "
14 " ...my inclination toward an action always plummets in direct correlation to someone's demand. Call me contrary. "
15 " The smile kindles in his dark eyes before it reaches his mouth. With a wonder that actually steals my breath, I watch its genesis like a mini-sunrise lighting his whole face. "
16 " Wrong like they all caught some exotic disease and died, and the station is now infected with deadly parasites that kill you with bloody hemorrhaging out the eyeballs? Or wrong like they don't want to encourage visitors? "
17 " How do you measure love? Quantify it? It's not something you can put on a scale or pour into a beaker to examine its volume and viscosity. "
18 " Seeing so many worlds rouses an odd sensation; I’d call it wanderlust, but it’s more like a fierce need to move on, because I don’t have anywhere like these folks do. Whatever its faults, they have somewhere they call their own. One they’d fight for, die for. Home. "
19 " I'm not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I've seen a chunk of the universe, true, but there's still so much to see. I double I'll ever cure this wanderlust, and I'm content with dedicating my life to failing to sate it. "
