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81 " Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone? "
― Jodi Picoult , The Pact
82 " I told you because I didn't know how not to. "
83 " Do you even know what a salad is?”“Sure,” Jordan said, smiling. “It's that stuff they invented a sneeze-guard for. "
84 " Any smidgen of emotion revealed would crack the careful mask of control and leave the person in pieces. "
85 " He did not have to read the careful number to know the weight of Emily's heart; he'd held it for years "
86 " I'm very sorry - the only words that could not rework into anything but what they signified. "
87 " How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turned the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? "
88 " At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you became as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something that everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgettingone how painful it had been at the time. "
89 " he would see this moment forever—one of life’s gallery of pictures— "
90 " I’ll call "
91 " How can you be so sure that your life is the one that's charmed? "
92 " She talked for a while about how much creativity Emily had in her soul and other bullshit, but it was nice bullshit, Chris thought. Emily would have liked it. "
93 " only one thing: the fact that Emily Gold…is dead.” He spread his "
94 " And that’s what I think love is,” Chris said quietly. “When your hindsight’s twenty-twenty, and you still wouldn’t change a thing. "
95 " She closed her eyes while he touched her with all the care in the world, and she started to heal. "
96 " He let his eyes drift shut and decided in that instant that for the rest of Emily's life, he would be her guardian angel. "
97 " How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turned the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home? "
98 " righteousness coursed through her that felt like the few dizzy moments after childbirth, when she had felt simultaneously exhausted and powerful enough to move mountains. "