33 quotes found
“A feeling can't kill you.”
“Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.”
“When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.”
“Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and...”
“He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.”
“I see an ocean thats spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.”
“This time as we ascend, I watch the world sinking below us. I watch the way the city fades into sand that gets washed by the ocean.”
“There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.”
“Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.”
“She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.”
“My father warned me that you’re an interloper. He told me I should make you leave, since we’re no longer married and you’re not my concern,” he says. The thought gives me a chill. Yes, I’m sure Vau...”
“There’s this anomaly that happens sometimes with twins. It occurs in the womb when the fetuses are growing too closely to each other. The stronger twin develops normally, while the weaker twin crum...”
“I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.”
