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“Dont make me angry-kiss you”
“Emergency dance party--go away.”
“She was tired of being the one who cried.”
“Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.”
“The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death.”
“If it tries to take you," Wren said, "I wont' let go.”
“Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy, Wren said. Its the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.”
“She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes."You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?”
“I dont trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am theyre going to get tired of me and take off.”
“I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.”
“When she opened her door, Levi was sitting in the hallway, his legs bent in front of him, hunched forward on his knees. He looked up when she stepped out.Im such an idiot, he said.Cath fell between...”
“Maybe we should go on lots of double dates, Cath said, and then we can get married on the same day in a double ceremony, in matching dresses, and the four of us will light the unity candle all at t...”
“Well, she said. Im frustrated.Dont make me angry-kiss you.Give me the laundry.Tempers rising, faces flushed This is how it happens.”
“Parfois, crire se rapproche de la chute libre : vos doigts s'agitent sur le clavier comme vos jambes dans le vide.”
“Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they cant quite keep up with gravity.”
“The professor leaned forward. But theres nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing. Her lovely face turned fierce. Think about it Cath. Thats what makes a godor a mother. Theres ...”
“When Im writing my own stuff, its like swimming upstream. Or falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.”
“I'm fine," [her dad] said gently. "Back on the horse, Cath.''What's the horse?' she sighed, watching him pull on a South High hoodie. 'Jogging? Working too much?''Living,' he said, a little too lou...”
“To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.”
“They slow your brain down," he said, clutching an orange bottle of pills. "They iron out all the wrinkles...Maybe all the bad stuff happens in the wrinkles, but all the good stuff does, too..."They...”
“Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them.”
“Words are very powerful," Miss Possibelf said, stepping lightly between the rows of desk. "And they take on more power the more they're spok”
“Seriously, why aren't you on drugs?" Cath walked past her out of the room."Are you a licensed psychiatrist? Or do you just play one on TV?""I'm on drugs," Reagan said. "They're a beautiful thing.”
“Youve read the books?Ive seen the movies.Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) So you havent read the books.Im ...”
