86 quotes found
“It is impossible to erase my choices.”
“She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone.”
“The person you became with her is worth being.”
“I don't know why, but his reaction disappoints me.”
“She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.”
“I love you" I say."I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.”
“I fell in love with him. But I don't just stay with him by default as if there's no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight ...”
“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
“I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me--they, and the love and loyaty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.”
“But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, on...”
“I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.”
“We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief.”
“I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.”
“People are supossed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought.”
“Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to...”
“To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb...”
“I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.”
“I don't want to die anymore. I am up to the challenge of bearing the guilt and the grief up to facing the difficulties that life has put in my path. Some days are harder than others, but I am ready...”
“You dont believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because theyre true.”
“Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that "something" is a fake bathroom break.”
“I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.”
“Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.”
“You're not very nice," I say, grinning."You're one to talk.""Hey, I could be nice if I tried.""Hmm." He taps his chin. "Say something nice, then.""You're very good-looking."He smiles, his teeth a f...”
“Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time.”
