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“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.”
“You arent crazy, he says. What? Ive known you all your life, and youve always tried to hide the parts of yourself that you think are wrong. But nothing is wrong with you. Those may be the best word...”
“There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.”
“Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.”
“Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.”
“People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.”
“With free will comes inevitable error and misjudgement”
“Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.”
“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...”
“But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.”
“Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.”
“I have always been fascinated by the ocean, to dip a limb beneath its surface and know that I'm touching eternity, that it goes on forever until it begins here again.”
“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.”
“You aren’t crazy,’ he says. ‘What?’ ‘I’ve known you all your life, and you’ve always tried to hide the parts of yourself that you think are wrong. But nothing is wrong with you.’ Those may be the b...”
