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“I’d rather not know what lies ahead because I like the dark. I like thinking there is something good in the places I can’t see. And that’s not ignorance. That’s just hope.”
“You don’t know what love is until you find it,” he whispered, “but when you do, promise me you won’t let it go. Promise you’ll seek it out even when you’re scared it’ll hurt.”
“What does a freelance researcher do?” “Researches things.” He winks at me and helps lift my bike onto a cobblestone walkway. “It’s not an interesting or particularly sexy job. Nobody wants to date ...”
“There comes a moment when we must choose how we’re going to love someone. Some forms of love leave a sweet memory once they’re gone, others leave scars. But there are forms that when stolen, destro...”
“Are you real?” Stupid. Of course he’s real.“Yes, Julie. I’m not the mystical man from your dreams.”
“You’re different, and I know that’s probably the most cliché response ever given, but it’s the truth. When I look at you, it’s as if I’m reading a novel. No matter how much time I spend studying yo...”
“After the end of the world, there is a world. Life doesn’t stop. It changes. And it changes me.”
“If I seem to not want to be with him now, it’s only because love scares me too, more than manipulation, because love is a choice I make and not something forced upon me. I trust him, but I don’t tr...”
“Yes,” I whisper so the others won’t hear, “but being afraid is good because it means I still have more to lose.”
“I am strong and human with a mouth that works like a man’s and a more intelligible brain, and I demand to be heard.”
“There is only one thing in this world worse than dying and that’s watching someone you love die instead—you feel their pain with no final solace.”
“We didn’t cause the apocalypse…”“But we were too dumb to see it,” she snaps. “That was our mistake.”
“We know your secret.And we won’t be made invisible.”
“It wouldn’t be very ladylike to punch a guy in the balls, but it isn’t very manlike to harass a woman because she has different parts and a sweet face.”
“The world doesn’t change because the sun sets and rises. We can either adapt to survive our circumstance or we can change it. And I know we can’t control fate, but I’m sure not going to spend whate...”
“The apocalypse was supposed to be cliché drama, Godzilla roaming the streets and zombies crawling from graves to devour the living. I guess all of humankind wanted to believe they’d end with a bang...”
“Every moment of contact between us seems important—every glance, every touch, every word. I don’t understand him, but I know him, and he knows me. It’s this strange connection we share. No matter h...”
“Memories tell me who I was, not who I’ll become. They don’t fix the present any more than they fix the past.”
“You see the world for what it is and what it could be,” Jack says. “What you don’t see is the gaping chasm in between … and that’s what I found.”
“To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear—each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.”
