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“She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.”
“Lena, listen to me, okay? We don't have much more time here. You are in love. I've never seen anything like this before. You have to be brave, okay? You have to go and tell Kostos how you feel. I s...”
“Respect is like a bridge to reach your Love. If you do not respect, love is lost.”
“Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what few precious gifts they would ever get. She cried for Bailey, for Tibby, for the resolute clump of ce...”
“Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll ...”
“The problem is that in this jail there are too many mosquitoes, they don't let me sleep.”
“Live the way life does, love the way they does”
“It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didnt come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you werent ready, when you were just innocently flossing your t...”
“We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the ...”
“I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.”
“This is how you will remember that you are mine. Every painful touch, everyaching hug, will remind you - that you are a slave - to me.”
“Sometimes the only way to keep love, is to let it go.”
“Should I really set her free, and free myself too of the fear - the fear of missing her, forever? Is that what my love for her is leaving me with?”
“Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on.-Annik Marchand”
“I picture you four girls back when you were small. I hardly knew where you ended and the other ones started.”
“Lena studied the faces of the girls on the sidelines. She could tell that Kostos owned the lust of what few local teenage girls there were in Oia, but instead he chose to dance with all the grandmo...”
“His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.”
“How could you cleanse yourself if you couldnt forget?”
“Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse and less alive. Her life seemed so small and crumpled you could shoot it through a stra...”
“The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water to...”
