153 quotes found
“Nobody should have to choose between a cold heart and a dead heart.”
“He was acting like our kiss had broken him, and his reaction was breaking me.”
“Back then, come July, and the blazers would again make their way out of the steel trunks and evenings would be spent looking at snow-capped mountains from our terrace and spotting the first few lig...”
“It made sense, Amanda decided. People thrived on the misfortunes of others: her mother was the perfect example of that. Can't see a car accident, she thought, for wanting to climb inside and join in.”
“The person she liked best didn't like her enough to want more of her, and she didn't want to pretend that wasn't awful.”
“My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand.”
“There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.”
“Mostly she just missed Vaughn. Missed all those quiet, unspectacular moments that, when added up, showed how entwined their lives had become. And right now, she missed being able to phone him, beca...”
“The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.”
“Books make the best ersatz friendships.”
“The way he looks at me makes me ache, but it isnt fair. He hurt me first. He caused this ache from the start. This inside out, churning pain that feels mental and physical now.I fiddle with my hand...”
“Yes. I rememb”
“It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when Jo...”
“Why does it hurt so much? Why does it have to hurt?”
“Angst is not the human condition, its the purgatory between what we have and what we want but cant get.”
“I could be the ceaseless mist that fogs your colourless eyes when you're lost in your universes.”
“Stacey muttered, "But I hate this school, and this city, and the sooner I leave, the better. I want to start over in a new place. I haven't . . ." her voice trailed off and she looked away from Jas...”
“Love, he thinks, is a lie that people tell each other in order to make the world bearable. He is not up for the lie anymore. And nobody is going to lie to him like that, anyway. He's not even worth...”
“Not your distress. Never that. I loved I loved being there. Next to you. The pile of limbs that was Us. Together in the same bed. Even if it meant waking up with a few new bruises.”
“I find some small, twisted comfort in thinking that perhaps we used each other. Him, for a glimpse into what it would be like to live a life entirely different from the one he'd been raised to desi...”
