24 quotes found
“What's so great about writing?" "You can make anything true”
“To be sorry you hurt me is not enough for me to forgive you.”
“What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?”
“Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.”
“No point in living a life less ordinary if you don't know what the other side looks like.”
“Funny, how it took a little bit of pain to remember that certain parts of yourself were alive.”
“No sky Leila had seen before could compare to the beauty she was seeing above her. It didn't feel like some accident of nature but rather something that was purposefully unleashed on the world.”
“It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.”
“How do text messages make you feel existential?I start thinking about exactly that: how people can edit a thought before sending it out to the world. They can make themselves seem more well spoken ...”
“Panic strikes me when I think about a sentence that isnt given the chance to live because I dont have a pen in my hand or am not sitting near enough to someone familiar to speak it to. Especially i...”
“As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay.”
“People go entire lives without figuring out exactly what they want from life. You already have it, and the future you and your dad have planned out for you in going to take it away from you.”
“A native tongue, in my opinion, isn't the language spoken where you were born or the first language you learned; it's a language that makes you feel at home. It's a language that you don't command,...”
“The thing with thoughts is that they die, like everything else. But almost everything else leaves a trace behind, even if it's a tiny carcass, some proof that it existed. Unless thoughts are spoken...”
“All the recognizable cliques came by, and so did those un-groupable stragglers who were known by their little circles of two or three.”
“I'm a pretty forgetful guy, but everything she says, I remember. I remember what colour her hair ribbon was when we met on the first day of fifth grade. I remember that she loves orchids because th...”
“I keep expecting to bump into you two on the road, but maybe the universe isnt yet ready to handle you and me side by side again.”
“I hate technology. It provides so many different channels of loneliness. Every time you check your email and dont see a new message, you know that, even though people have the ability to contact yo...”
“I'm usually a bit awkward in houses that I haven't been to before, so it's a way to not look weird. If I find something I've read before it automatically makes me more comfortable.”
“Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or more or less n...”
“She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.”
