39 quotes found
“It's like you're averse to adventure.”
“...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.”
“You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.”
“Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”
“I'll keep you here.' He taps his temple. 'Where you can't get lost.”
“The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.”
“We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.”
“But now here I am: No money. No place to stay. It should be my worst nightmare. But I don't care. It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.”
“And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He s...”
“We kiss again. This next kiss is the kind that breaks open the sky. It steals my breath and gives it back. It shows me that every other kiss I've had in my life has been wrong.”
“Green trees against the sky in the spring rain while the sky set off the spring trees in the obscuration. Red flowers dot the land in the breeze's chase while the land colored up in red after the k...”
“You never know what will last."He said that earlier, about accidents, about never knowing which one is just a kink in the road and which one is a fork, about never knowing your life is changing unt...”
“...that whole day, being with Willem, being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I th...”
“I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. It's the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that I've lost myself to - which is that I'll be thrown back to my own...”
“I clap so that I can hold on to this feeling. I clap because I know what will happen when I stop. Its the same thing that happens when I turn off a really good movie - one that Ive lost myself to -...”
“To be or not to be: that is the question. That's from Hamlet's - maybe Shakespeare's - most famous soliloquy. I had to memorize the whole speech for sophomore English, and I can still remember ever...”
“...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and ...”
“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want the men wind up suckered into things.”
“It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.”
“I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.”
“He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every...”
“You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.”
“We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.”
“[My parents] always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product.”
