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“I know she's just trying to protect me, just as I was to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscles like any other. It can hurt.”
“They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.”
“He tastes like salted caramel and sunshine. Or what I think salted caramel and sunshine taste like. He tastes like nothing I've ever experienced, like hope and possibility and future”
“Who reads? Not that I begrudge my life in book. All I know about the world I've learned from them. But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel o...”
“If I could, I would kiss him every second of every day. For all the days.”
“But I like my big Afro. I also liked when my hair was longer and relaxed. Im happy to have choices. Theyre mine to make”
“Im kind of a contagion cryer. You know how when one person starts yawning, everyone else starts yawning too? Or when someone vomits, the smell makes you want to hurl? Im like that, except with crying.”
“seriously. Just because you cant experience everything doesnt mean you shouldnt experience anything.-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything”
“My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.”
“He says they're not his type, but I don't really get the concept of having a type. My type is girls. All of them. Why would I limit my dating pool?”
“I was trying so hard to find the single pivotal moment that set my life on its path. The moment that answered the question, 'How did I get here?'But it's never just one moment. It's a series of the...”
“Be Brave. Remember, life is a gift.”
“Anything can happen at anytime. Safety is not guaranteed. There's more to life than being alive.”
“Loving someone as fiercely as my mom loves me must be like wearing your heart outside of your body with no skin, no bones, no nothing to protect it.”
“[His eyes are] Atlantic Ocean blue, just like he'd said. It's strange because of course I'd known that. But the difference between knowing it and seeing them in person is the difference between dre...”
“Love won't kill you.-Carla”
“This is the life you're living. It's not temporary and it's not pretend and there's no do-over.”
“The ocean will swallow you whole and burp you out and not notice you were even there.”
“The ocean here is weird. It's the wrong kind of blue.”
“He thinks my hair smells like spring rain. I'm really trying to remain stoic and unaffected. I remind myself that I don't like poetic language. I don't like poetry. I don't even like people who lik...”
