30 quotes found
“Pictures can be pretty deceptive.”
“We were all forged in the crucible.”
“I'm surrounded by people and feel alone”
“A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits.”
“Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.”
“A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits.”
“There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.”
“You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me.”
“Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.”
“So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don'...”
“But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.”
“I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to m...”
“We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together. Mia's legs are off the ground, wrapped around my waist, her hands dipping in my hair, my han...”
“It's my turn to see you through,' she whispers, coming back to me and wrapping me in her blanket as I lose my shit all over again. She holds me until I recover my Y chromosome.”
“Concert' doesnt mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.”
“In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.”
“After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music in the silence. Back then, I'd wanted to be able to do that, too. So I took to watching her play, ...”
“But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.”
“She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.”
“It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam”
“I'm not sure if the question's rhetorical or if she thinks I have a clue to her metaphysical mystery. And I'm in no state to answer either way because I'm crying. I don't realize it till I taste th...”
“How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?”
“My chips are all cashed out. There's nothing to lose. Or maybe I've already lost it and found it, and whatever else there might be to lose...”
“Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing.”
“She looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. Because I hated you.The wind, the noise, it all just goes quiet for a second, and Im left with a dull ringing in my e...”
