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21 " The song sounded like it was about heartbreak, or hope, or maybe a little bit of both. "
― Dan Gemeinhart , The Honest Truth
22 " The aloneness howled louder than the wind.Louder even, than my anger.My teeth chattered. "
23 " Even when you're talking to someone who might not know what you're saying, lying to good people just feels bad. But it had to be done. So I did it. "
24 " She missed him with the kind of missing that almost feels like anger. "
25 " That's the kind of friend she was. We were so together that we weren't ever really apart. "
26 " I knew all about anger. That's the truth. "
27 " Here's what I don't get: why giving up always sounds good until you do. "
28 " A sudden sharp stab of love drilled down into my heart. It was followed by a cold splash of sorry. "
29 " Here's what I don't get: why people always think they can do something just because they want to. "
30 " —Y los hospitales son una mierda. Y los tratamientos son una mierda. Y que los amigos te vean enfermo es una mierda. Y ver a tus padres llorar es una mierda. Por lo tanto, es muy posible que lo único que quiera sea subir a una montaña y desaparecer. "
31 " He's given me that silver pocket watch and I'd carried it everywhere. I'd loved it--until things got worse and its ticking sounded more like dark footsteps coming up behind me. I loved the watch until I started hating time. And how it ran out. "
32 " I was every different kind of sad there is. And every kind of determined too. In all that I thought of, I never thought of stopping. "
33 " His head turned back and forth, sniffing at every strange sound and looking at every black shadow. A growl lived in his throat all the time. Everything felt like danger. "
34 " I bit my lip and looked out the window into darkness and tried to remember the last time I'd been happy. I had to go back. Way back. Every memory for years was stained now, even the good ones. I had to go all the way back to before. "
35 " Here’s what I don’t get: just about anything. I don’t get any of it at all "
36 " Why?" she asked the darkness. She knew, she thought she knew where he was going. She knew, she thought, what he was doing. The question that growled in the darkness at her was "Why?"But there were two wolves growling in the darkness. The one that growled "Why" was followed by a darker, quieter growl that answered. And she liked the answer even less than she liked the question. It chased all sleep out of the room. "
37 " Her chin stuck out. Her green eyes started to water. "'Cause I'm mad. I'm so mad." Her voice got a little broken around the edges.Her fingers where tight in her lap. I could see her anger in her lips. In the red of her cheeks. In her flaring nostrils.I knew all about anger. That's the truth. "
38 " The mountain was calling me. I had to run away. I had to. "
39 " Okay, some wolves had torn me up the night before. But then angels woke me up. "
40 " All the word was wind.Snow an cold were all around.Darkness was coming. "