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“Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced; it was agreed that friends just didn't get it; tears were shed; comfort...”
“Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music.”
“If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane.”
“And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were togeth...”
“I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?”
“As he read, I feel in love the way you fall asleep: slow, and then all at once.”
“I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each l...”
“Her primary reason for living and my primary reason for living were awfully entangled.”
“It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that did...”
“And the moral of the story is that you dont remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
“what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us- not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us as individuals.”
“I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark”
“The whole thing was the precise opposite of what I figured it would be: slow and patient and quiet and neither particularly painful nor particularly ecstatic”
“It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.”
“The problem, of course, is that there's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day. At the time, it's just another good day.”
“Photographs are just light and time" - Aza Holmes”
“And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.”
“You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us”
“Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive him not because he had a heart as figuratively good as his literal one sucked, or because he knew more about how to h...”
“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
