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“Here's the last thing that occurs to me as Sarah recedes in the rearview mirror, slamming out of the car, jogging across the parking lot: If you're one tardy away from missing out on a big competit...”
“You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back.”
“Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. I dont know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the p...”
“He pauses for only a fraction of a second. Then he leans forward and presses his lips to mine, and the whole world powers off, the moon and the rain and the sky and the streets, and its just the tw...”
“Its kind of sad, if you think about it. Like theres no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when youre no longer a kid but a...”
“You cant go home again isnt necessarily that places change but people do.”
“Who the hell calls at two in the morning?""Maybe it's Matt Wilde, confessing his love," Lindsay says."Very funny,”
“So many things become beautiful when you really look”
“Thats when it happens. The moment of death is full of heat and sound and pain bigger than anything, a funnel of burning heat splitting me in two, something searing and scorching and tearing, and if...”
“Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?''Sometimes.''So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.'But this is my voice. How would you be able ...”
“Things change after you die, though- I guess because dying is about the lonliest thing you can do.”
“...I've 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.”
“How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?”
“I used to think that's what love was: knowing someone so well he was like a part of you.”
“This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.”
“It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed.”
“And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to have everything together when rea...”
“I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.”
“Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it.”
“I think of Lindsay in the bathroom of Rosalitas, and wonder how many people are clutching secrets like little fists, like rocks sitting in the pits of their stomachs. All of them, maybe.”
