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You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?

I thought how there was a kind of power in being needed. In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones and thickening my blood.

There was something so lonely about that moment, everyone around me completely involved in this thing I wasn't a part of, me with nowhere to go.

Sometimes I wondered if I might go through my whole life looking for someone who came even a little bit close

Greta always wanted to know everything. Every little detail. But I understood. You can ruin anything if you know too much.

The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.

Until the last light faded. Until the space between the tree branches and the branches themselves became the same dark thing.

Then, who is Matilda?' I asked.
Toby tilted his cup and poked at the slush with his straw. 'I suppose Matilda's the girl who felt like home.

when it's only you and your sister, you can do any embarrassing thing you want.

Who could resist the two of us all squashed into one beautiful person, right? He smiled.

I thought of trying to catch her eye, so she'd know I understood what she'd done, but I decided not to. Everyone needs to think they have secrets.

Because maybe I don't want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to remember something about me.

How do you become someone with X-ray vision?

I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. If my life was a film, I'd have walked out by now.

Please promise to take the very best care of my only girl. With so much love my heart might split in two ...

I thought how that was wrong and terrible and beautiful all at the same time.

It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.

And I suddenly understood that getting drunk was just one more way to leave this place, this time.

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.

Hm-hm-hm, his laugh went. Like he'd swallowed the sun.

Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.

I'm okay with one or two people, but more than that and I turn into a naked mole rat.

I didn't say anything. Greta always knew how to make me lose my words.

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

But you don't know what it was like. It was just the two of us that afternoon, and then ... and then it was just me.

I didn't know how to seal a promise with a dead person.

That's one of those snapshot moments. I don't know why some memories are like that, where everything is perfectly preserved. Frozen.

Places we went back to so many times that they started to

When you have a watch, time is like a swimming pool. There are edges and sides. Without a watch, time is like the ocean. Sloppy and vast.

You can't keep friends if you always say no to things.

But it's my face. Mine and Greta's. We don't belong to everybody.

Once you know a thing you can't ever unknow it.

She was wired into my heart. Twisted and kinked and threaded right through.

I only need one good friend to see me through. Most people aren't like that. Most people are always looking out for more people to know.

I thought it was good to test yourself sometimes. It was good to see how much you could take.

I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.

Maybe when you're dead you can crawl inside other people and make them nicer than they were before.

Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don't want you to see. (p. 4)

I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other.

I know all about love that's too big to stay in a tiny bucket. Splashing out all over the place in the most embarrassing way possible.

The kinds of things I want don't cost money.

There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness.

It felt like all the blood in my body had swum up to my face , leaving the skin around my heart completely transparent.

Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them.

Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

All my parents' music came from greatest hits albums. It was like the thought of getting even one bum track was too much for them to handle.

Either you're a falconer or you're not. Either the birds come back to you or they fly away.

Finn said art isn't about drawing or painting a perfect bowl of fruit. It's about ideas. And you, he said, have enough good ideas to last a lifetime.

I want to imagine wrinkled time, and forests thick with wolves, and bleak midnight moors

There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I'll carry them for the rest of my days.

There was at least some small beauty in what we'd done.

I don't like to overhear things, because, in my experience, things your parents are keeping quiet about are things you don't want to know.

My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.

You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.

I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.

We both knew we were the biggest nerds in the whole world.

Beauty parlor was a game was used to play when we were little, when we were still best friends.

Maybe all I wanted was for Toby to hear the wolves that lived in the dark forest of my heart.