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“Maybe Dracula wasn't a vampire, just a raging alcoholic who was constantly hungover.”
“We were characters out of a movie. We were thoroughly alive. And we were absolutely beautiful.”
“...Tell me you believe that our lives are anything more than a ridiculous cascade of random chances.”
“How could death not be appealing, when the only thing that gave him comfort in life was being unconscious?”
“Shed passed the fear barrier, and shed lived, and shed discovered not certain death, as shed imagined, but impossible splendor. What other beautiful things had fear been hiding from her? What else ...”
“The old fear was there, the grapnel anchor lodged in her chest, the thing that wanted to pull her back away from the edge and whisper no, no, no. Yet there was a new thing: a lure. Something down i...”
“As she fell, Esther wasnt worried about being blown off course and plummeting into the rocks below. She wasnt worried about hitting the shallows and pin diving to the ocean floor and shattering her...”
“Esther supposed, as they held each other under a threadbare carpet of stars, that this was how it must always feel in the beginning. Yet even there, next to him, the most excellent person in the un...”
“Lola and I both highly believed in the value of metaphorical gifts, so while everyone else saw a demonic-looking cat skeleton dripping wax on the packaging, Lola saw the message: Our friendship is ...”
“I cant lie to you and tell you that standing in front of someone and offering them your soul and having them reject you is not gonna be one of the worst things that ever happens to you. You will wo...”
“Esther so badly wanted to save her father, to bring him back from the half death that had become his life. Every time he reminded her that he couldnt be saved, Esthers heart broke a little more.”
“The magic had started to degrade, and Rosemary had slowly but surely become thoroughly, gruesomely human. And there were few things worse in this world than humans.”
“Anxiety felt like a grapnel anchor had been pickaxed into your back, one prong in each lung, one through the heart, one through the spine, the weight curving your posture forward, dragging you down...”
“One day, he said, everybodys gonna wake up and realize their parents are human beings, just like them. Sometimes theyre good people, sometimes theyre not.”
“Esther wanted to make her brother understand that he was the sun. That he was bright and burning and brilliant, and without his warmth, without his gravity to orient herself around, she would be no...”
“Draft ThreeBecause I never realized that you could fall in love with humans the same way you fall in love with songs. How the tune of them could mean nothing to you at first, an unfamiliar melody, ...”
“Because I never realized that you could fall in love with humans the same way you fall in love with songs. How the tune of them could mean nothing to you at first, an unfamiliar melody, but quickly...”
“Plus, how can she be your soul mate? Didn't you tell me she'd never read Harry Potter? Do you really want to spend the rest of your life with someone like that? I mean, for God's sake, think of you...”
“The trouble was, I did know what I wanted from Grace Towne. I wanted to sleep with her, sure. I wanted her to be my girlfriend. A few years from now, I wanted to marry her. And then, when we were o...”
“I know you want her back, kid. And I know that people saying things like 'there are plenty more fish in the sea' is only going to make you hurt more. And I could tell you all about the science of w...”
