113 quotes found
“She had a heart the size of France and the lucky few whom she loved, she loved with every square inch of it. But it's size made it dangerous.”
“Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me.”
“...so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt chea...”
“Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but o...”
“At the heart of nature's mystery lies another mystery.”
“An air of mystery closed around the details of his early life. I didn't pry. He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets.”
“Right at the flamingo orgy! Left at the multiethnic roof Santas! Straight past the pissing cherubs!”
“I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment." I'd always known I was strange. I never dreamed I was peculiar.”
“A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.”
“He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.”
“Everything happens for a reason.”
“By morning I was worn out. My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony. I might've felt better if I hadn't slept at all.”
“Maybe," she said. "Maybe. But now you're making promises you might not be able to keep, and that's how people in love get very badly hurt.”
“Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.”
“I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch”
“Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?EasyId be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in vid...”
“When I was a kid, Granpa Portman's fantastic stories meant it was possible to live a magical life. Even after I stopped believing them, there was still something magical about my grandfather. To ha...”
“The day that lay before (was) full of infinite possibilities, though in a million superficial ways it was identical to the day before.”
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I wo...”
“anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After.”
