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“I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid.”
“Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.”
“He sounded absolutely miserable. Are you ever going to speak to me?”
“He was every angel and every devil.”
“I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.”
“And so you know what I did with those sad things? I put them in boxes. I put the sad things in the boxes in my head, and I closed them up and I put tape on them and I stacked them up in the corner ...”
“While I pressed the tissue to my face, Beck said, Can I tell you something? There are a lot of empty boxes in your head, Sam.I looked at him, quizzical. Again, it was a strange enough concept to ho...”
“I didnt know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning every happy memory I had of growing up. Without it ruining everything Beck and I had.I didnt underst...”
“I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.”
“Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, "That's how I would kiss you, if I loved you.”
“I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what he looked like: lithe, gray, yellow-eyed. I would pass back images of my own, o...”
“We were miles away from our real lives.”
“It was possible that I'd thrown one too many Molotov cocktails over God's fence.”
“Food," I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."Cole frowned at me, as if I'd suggested "ducks" and "yoga".”
“Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.”
“I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.”
“If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out t...”
“Cole," I said, "Don't lose this number.”
“Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt.""How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.”
“We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.”
