479 quotes found
Author · American · 1982
American author (born 1982)
“I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.”
“He Is looking at me through the smoke, across the fence. He never takes his eyes off me. His hair Is a crown of leaves, of thorns, of flames. His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all th...”
“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...”
“But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.”
“on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.”
“Her eyes are shining; shes excited now, ready to go. For a moment, standing in the fuzzy haze of sunlight still penetrating the blinds, she appears to be glowing, as though lit up by some internal ...”
“I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.”
“Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to...”
“With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly decoded and deciphered. Fre...”
“Things werent always as good as they are now. In school we learned that in the old days, the dark days, people didnt realize how deadly a disease love was.For a long time they even viewed it as a g...”
“[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.”
“It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People sh...”
“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...”
“Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just...”
“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...”
