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“Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I'm just haunting them.”
“He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.”
“Watch it,' her mom snapped. 'Don't start a fight just because it's the easiest thing to do.”
“I don't want to lie about who I am, even if it doesn't matter. It's who I am. It's part of me.”
“She believed in herself maybe more than other people believed in God or the devil or Heaven or Hell.”
“But she believed there was a thin line between accepting one's fears and giving in to them altogether.”
“Jealous of the crazy gay kid. That doesn't sound right.""Hey, Sol," she said, her tone getting serious for a second. "Those are two things about you out of a million. Don't box yourself in.”
“Dr. Webb says that life is so full of complications and confusion that humans oftentimes find it hard to cope. This leads to people throwing themselves in front of trains and spending all their mon...”
“What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.”
“But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.”
“Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could b...”
“They say the heart is just a muscle. They say it plays absolutely no role in our emotions and that its use as a symbol for love is based on archaic theories of it being the seat of the soul or some...”
“We've learned from this that death can hurt us. It can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up a night. But we've also learned the things that death cannot do. It cannot crush our hopes. It...”
“Death can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up at night. But weve also learned the things that death cannot do. It cannot crush our hopes. It cannot take away the love and support of our...”
“You're both living these lives you didn't choose to live in a world full of people telling you what that's supposed to mean. That's messed up.”
“Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family. "A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future," he says. "Spouses...”
“We all get lots of people. And maybe we dont always get to have them the exact way we want them, but if we can figure out a way to compromise, you know, then we can keep them all.”
“Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way ...”
“That's the thing. You come back and you expect everyone to be just the way they were when you left. But it's not that easy, okay? You can't just force us all to be how you liked us.”
“All that time I'd spent worrying about why I'm here and how I'm supposed to live had kept me from remembering that Jeremy Pratt will never be back. His people will never have him again. He is Jerem...”
“I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.”
“We let them help because they needed it, not us. We didn't let them help us because we needed it, we let them help us because inside of humans is this thing, this unnamed need to feel as if we are ...”
“Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There's no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever th...”
“Maybe my time's running out, but at least I'm living. And if that's what it is for you, being here inside where nothing ever happens, where you think you're safe, then stay. Stay right here and you...”
