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Oddly enough, though, that day with Lulu it didn't feel anything like falling. It felt like arriving

Once the options increase, settling on one becomes harder.

Which, is a great thing - mostly. Ah, fame,

I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.

Do you honestly think that where you're buried has any bearing on where your spirit lives?

How come you have never written a song about me?
I'm not really good at writing about things that make me happy.

Some things are impossible to tear yourself away from.

It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.

How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?

And while I want to spare Mia the circus, I don't care if the whole world knows we're together.

I have nothing but time in my life, but never enough of it when I need it.

Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

The words he writes to his music, they're poetry.

But now we are two here. And soon there will be more. After so much contracting, somehow, inexplicably, my family is growing again.

And the voice grows stronger and stronger, and it's my
voice this time and it's asking a question: How does she
know?

Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

But the you who you are tonight is the same you I was in love with yesterday, the same you I'll be in love with tomorrow.

We both speak Dutch and English. But we never could speak the same language.

Adam had chosen me, and this I didn't understand. Why had he fallen for me? It didn't make sense.

Teddy had taken his shirt off and had streaked himself with mud. Dad said he looked like one of the boys from Lord of the Flies.

Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.

It is courageous to go into territory unknown.

'Twilight' is a breathlessly addictive read with a love story that sucks people in.

I failed her
in life. But I won't fail her in death.

To dream is the ultimate dare, is it not?

You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control.

I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.

Pieces of my father's brain are on the asphalt.

It's ok if you want to stop fighting.

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there.

But it was such a calming silence; it made me relax and feel closer to him than any heart-to-heart would have.

You just work through it. You just hang in there.

Would we fall in love if we met today?

beshert. Meant to be.

Fake it 'till you make it.

We'll tell our secrets to the dark.

[My parents] always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product.

So dark you almost miss it

I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me.

Women can handle the worst kind of pain.

He kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered into my ear.

When you're on the road, there is awlays the promise of the next stop being better than the last

I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia

Another missed connection. Story of my life these days

All night long if you want. We'll tell our secrets to the dark.

when you feel sad, you look sad

Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.

(P)eople's good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.

The best day of my life was
one I never even saw coming.

A good fight scene is really a good love scene.

Everyone thinks it was because of the snow. And in a way, I suppose that's true.

I'm the one shot, the heir and the spare, so you have to make damn sure your one investment pays off because there's no backup.

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.

She's generous as an oil baron and loyal as a pit bull.

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

Hate me. Devastate me. Annihilate me. Re-create me. Re-create me. Won't you, won't you won't you re-create me.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want.

I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.

It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.

A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

To fight with the best of them, but with words, with lots and

Almost don't matter. You got to deal with the situation at hand.

I understand then that giving me the computer is not really a gift. But maybe my taking it is.

It wasn't even a fight, really. We didn't shout. We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives.

Sometimes it's easier to be someone else.

Are you famous in India?" Allyson asks.
"I am Brad Pitt in India" Willem says.

We'll just be the kinds of girls who have boyfriends in college.

it was forty degrees outside.

It's nice, this. The canal." He looks at me. "You."
"I'll bet you say that to all the canals.

It was so new that day: the liberation of being honest, of being brave, maybe a little stupid.

I like French fries, I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.

I thought of what Mom sometimes said to me when I was feeling insecure: Fake it till you make it.

Oh honey, have you learned nothing from these plays? Ain't such a line between faking and being.

My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself.

When I was with him, I felt like I already knew him

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.

Bitch is just another word for feminist!

If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam's circle.

Dying is easy. Living is hard

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

A thousand suns rise from my chest.

How does it feel that the only worthy thing you ever ceeated came from the worst kind of loss.

I recognized that the kiss was a door I had walked through.

You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love

You'll get through it. I know you seem like you won't, but you will.

I let the memories flood me as I fill one page. Then another. And then I'm not even writing about him anymore. I'm writing about me.

I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.

Do you really think that if you don't mention my family I'll forget them?

Forever and a day.

Closure. I loathe that word.

Music! Goddammit! Music!" Mom screamed.
"We have some lovely Enya. Very soothing," the midwife said.
"Fuck Enya!" Mom screamed.

She says this like people are constantly knocking down our door for a nice, dry, warm place to stay, when, in fact, we are the strays.

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

And yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever ...

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.