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“I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part of me that could remember Grace's...”
“Sam came around the back of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. "Oh my God, what is that?"I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicoloured pom-pom on top of my head. "In my languag...”
“I gave her a look. Rachel.Grace, you have to admit this is pretty weird. Say it. You disappearing from the hospital and Olivia is and Sam suddenly shows up with you and, well, the freaky hallucino...”
“I mean, we dont have to worry about it until winter, anyway, she said. I was just wondering if you felt cured.I didnt know what to tell her. I didnt feel cured. I felt like what Cole said almost cu...”
“Sam reached his hand toward mine, and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile, he pulled my hand toward his nose and took a sniff, and then another one. His smile widened,...”
“I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over the shelves, seeking possibilities for escape.”
“Please open please if there's any justice in this world.”
“Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.”
“I was surfing the Internet for a different sort of education. I surfed for photos of circus freaks and synonyms for the word intercourse and for answers to why staring at the stars in the evening t...”
“Youre my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.”
“Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.”
“sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .”
“She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that cant replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you.”
“I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I ...”
“I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded.”
“I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl,Id love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girl,But Im never warm enough for my lovely summer gir...”
“It's all you think about, all you talk about, and all you want us to talk about. What in the world would we call something like that? Oh, yeah! An obsession!”
