66 quotes found
“Thats a funny thing: you think, when awful things happen, everything else just stops, like you would forget to pee and eat and get thirsty, but its not really true. Its like you and your body are t...”
“I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say.”
“Look, I'm not going to have sex with him just so he'll say that he loves me, you know?"...That isn't why I was planning to have sex with Rob - to hear the words, I mean. I just wanted to get it ove...”
“Maybe Lindsay and I are best friends and we hate each other, both. Maybe Im only one math class away from being a slut like Anna Cartullo. Maybe I am like her, deep down. Maybe we all are: just one...”
“At the same time I know that its not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this m...”
“Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a ...”
“The details that are life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be repro...”
“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it sli...”
“The secret is, I say, whispering right into his ear, that yours was the best kiss Ive ever had in my life.But Ive never kissed you, he whispers back. Around us the rain sounds like falling glass. N...”
“My point is: maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around i...”
“And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with...”
“Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.”
“No guest rooms. I shake my head resolutely. I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room.”
“Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserve to die? So bad I deserved to die like that?I what I did really so much worse than waht anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Th...”
“I keep quiet and look out the window. The light is weak and watery-looking, like the sun hast just spilled itself over the horizon and is too lazy to clean itself up. The shadows are as sharp and p...”
“A good friend keeps your secrets for you. A best friend helps you keep your own secrets.”
“I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took”
“And then, just at that moment, when I'm no longer sure if I'm dreaming or awake or walking some valley in between where everything you wish for comes true, I feel the flutter of his lips on mine.”
“If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up”
“Ive never really had a party before. Why did you have one now? I say, just to keep him talking. He gives a half laugh. I thought if I had a party, you would come.”
