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“I was just thinking... isn't it lucky that we decided to become co-editors? If one takes a blow to the head, the other can fill in. If the other's lung spontaneoulsy collapses, the one can fill in....”
“No one will ever love me that much again.”
“On the board, Mr. Beery had written "Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it." I wasn't sure if this was meant to be inspirational, thematic, or a joke about making sure to study.”
“Each period had required me to be a slightly different person, and that was exhausting. I wondered if school had always felt this way and whether it was like this for everone.”
“I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isnt? When you think about it, isnt a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?”
“Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.”
“Tragedy is when someone ends up dead.Everything else is just a bump in the road.”
“Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.”
“Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?”
“On Earth, Liz was constantly occupied with studying and finding a college and a career and all those other things that the adults in her life deemed terribly important. Since she had died, everythi...”
“Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.”
“I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.”
“A.J. watches Maya in her pink party dress, and he feels a vaguely familiar, slightly intolerable bubbling inside of him. He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbo...”
“It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldnt live without him. Apparently I could.”
“Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common?”
“There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.”
“There's the tree with the branches that everyone sees, and then there's the upside-down root tree, growing the opposite way. So Earth is the branches, growing in opposing but perfect symmetry. The ...”
“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your...”
“There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.”
“A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length.”
