24 quotes found
“were too old to be young.”
“we’re too old to be young.”
“The problem with books is that they end.”
“In the cage, you feel loved, not trapped. Just like me.”
“Your lips were made for mine, Beck. You are the reason I have a mouth, a heart.”
“and if anyone was ever going to live eternally in the light, I think it would be you.”
“I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time.”
“I peeked in the bag. Do you know what was in there? I'll tell you what was in there: a collapsible tray table. Is there any sadder purchase in this fucking world? Maybe a CD of C+C Music Factory's ...”
“... and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.”
“It's amazing how good fifty and sunny feels after you've been bleeding in twelve with a windchill of go fuck yourself.”
“You are a monster, deathly, solipsistic to the bone and youre blasphemous because all you want is You”
“I don't feel sorry for myself, Beck. Lots of people have shitty parents and roaches in the cabinets and stale, raw Pop-Tarts for dinner and a TV that barely works and a dad who doesn't care when hi...”
“And [Benji] cheats on you, Beck. A lot. Compulsively. He is in intense pursuit of a performance artist who fucks with his head the way he fucks with yours.”
“I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.”
“If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But Im on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and were too old to be young.”
“... and you start telling a story about accidentally stealing shoes from an outlet and we've been on the steps for almost twenty minutes and you're so nervous and excited that you keep talking abou...”
“What a shame to be so angered by what you don't have that you treat what you do have like it's nothing.”
“And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.”
“The only thing crueler than a cage sosmall that a bird cant fly is a cage solarge that a bird thinks it can fly.”
“Some good shit happens fast (a bestselling book), and some good shit happens slow (love).”
“But the most important thing I know is that I want the possibility of you more than the reality of [her].”
