10 quotes found
“I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be. ”
“Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.”
“I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twinif somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.”
“...It felt like they were telling each other secrets. Everything they said felt like thatwhispered, tender, full of other meanings, like when you tell someone a dream or talk about your astrologica...”
“She wasnt crying at all. This was what scared him the most. Where had she locked up the things hed seen her feeling that day when she heard? She wasnt that big a girl to hold all of itto hold her b...”
“It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone sai...”
“Nightingale"Did I wound you, mutilate. Take away your voice. Did I cut something from you. Leave you locked in silence?This is what you do: you sing. Every part of you. Your locks of hair sing, you...”
“You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked...”
“Once she was standing by her locker and her puka shells broke and scattered and she made a joke about it but he could tell she was upset. He wanted to buy her some more. He wanted to give her a mil...”
“Lex surfed wicked, like the devil. He wasnt afraid of anything, seemed like. He grinned at West as the waves came up toward them like towers of green glass, an emerald city. Were off to see the wiz...”