79 quotes found
“According to scientists, there are three stages of love: lust, attraction, and attachment. And, it turns out, each of the stages is orchestrated by chemicalsneurotransmittersin the brain.As you mig...”
“Dark matter is love. It's the attracting force.”
“Yay, science.”
“Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, fr...”
“Olly: jesus. is there a girl on this planet who doesn't love mr.darcyMadeline: All girls love Mr. Darcy?Olly: are you kidding? even my sister loves darcy and she doesn't love anybodyMadeline: She m...”
“I almost wish I hadn't met him. How am I supposed to go back to my old life, my days stretching out before me with unending and brutal sameness? How am I supposed to go back to being The Girl Who R...”
“Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.”
“Do you think its funny that both of our favorite memories are about the people we like the least now? I ask.Maybe thats why we dislike them, she says. The distance between who they were and who the...”
“A photograph is a kind of time machine.”
“Observable Fact: I dont believe in magic.Observable Fact: We are magic.”
“In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Olly's hand on mine, but my brain will remember. We can have immortality or the memory of touch. But we can't have both.”
“If people who were actually born had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.”
“maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself”
“ocean (SHn) n. pl. -s. 1. The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there. [2015, Whittier]”
“When I was younger, one of my favorite activities was imagining alternative-universe versions of myself. Sometimes I was a rosy-cheeked outdoorsy girl who ate flowers and hiked alone, uphill, for m...”
“Growing up and seeing your parents' flaws is like losing your religion. I don't believe in God anymore. I don't believe in my father either.”
“I kiss him to get him to stop talking. If he keeps talking I will love him, and I don't want to love him. I really don't. As strategies go, it's not my finest. Kissing is just another way of talkin...”
“Is it always like that?" I ask, breathless. No, he says. It's never like that. I hear the wonder in his voice. And just like that, everything changes.”
“Love is worth everything. Everything.”
“Hearts dont break.Its just another thing the poets say.Hearts are not madeOf glassOr boneOr any material that couldSplinterOr FragmentOr Shatter.They dontCrack Into Pieces.They dontFall Apart.Heart...”
