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It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

i want
him to
give up,

no.

no, i don't.

Having
someone think of me that way was like discovering
a new window in the room i'd lived in all my life.

You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?"
Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes."
"Not Coffee it is, then."
"Yes, Not Coffee.

In the darkest part of our hearts, we used to think that maybe they were right.
We don't think that anymore.

When people say love is blind, they act like that's a good thing. But some people find their way around in the darkness a little better than others.

Get shitfaced, then face the shit.

I instantly feel like the world has turned to glass. Every moment is delicate. Every movement is a risk.

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic nor popular - but one must take it because it is right.

If I woke up in a different body every day
if you never knew what I was going to look like tomorrow
would you still love me?

We all have the potential to commit the crime. We chose not to. Every single day, we chose not to. I am no different

Why do you want to put more smoke inside of you?

I am not the enter of anything.

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.

One last song. One last turn. One last street. No matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you -Rhiannon

Do you really exist?" I blurt out.
"Not at all," he says with a smile, "I've known that since I was four.

It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

While nobody wants to say how bad it is, there's no way to pretend it's a normal day.

I like whatever it is that makes you the person you are.

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

Calling someone a loser is a way of saying I've won without having to actually win anything.

His train could've gotten stuck in a tunnel or something. it's not unheard of. he's coming from ohio after all. people in ohio are late all the time.

Yeah," I said. "You might be human, Jack, but Ariel's mathematics. She's all mathematics."
There are so many things I wish I hadn't said.

I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

A little recognition of the escapes we made, of the finish line we crossed, only to find so many other finish lines waiting after it.

You can't ask for much more than that - a good woman and a story to tell.

You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.

He wishes that time was a matter of choice. That you could live your life controlling the metronome speed it up sometimes, but mostly slow it down.

His eyes are a little together, but man, are they green.

Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.

I guess it's a choice we make," she said. "What's a choice?" I asked. And she said, "How much of the world we let in.

And love. I am here because of love.

I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.

Love is the higher law.

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

How alone am I right now? Even my car has decided to give up on me.

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it's a game, I know I'm going to lose.

How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.

Soon we are singing at the top of our lungs. A pop song that's as substantial as a balloon, but lifts us in the same way when we sing it.

The frustration is in how pointless the effort was

These words are now mine, but soon they'll be ours.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

Just because I don't think we'd be good together doesn't mean we have to be apart ...

He wasn't always like this. Nobody is ever always like this.

Don't go for normal," Ari suggests. "Go for happy. Go for what you want it to be instead of settling for what it is.

I've found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

It is too easy to be ignored in this world,
so you've gotta put yourself up front
if you want to be counted, and to count.

When you jump, all you're going to do is fall. But leaping? Leaping is when you think there's something on the other side.

It is a terrible thing to not feel missed.

To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he's living it - he wonders what that means.

And when he
catches me
off guard
and says
'i love you'
i catch him
off guard
and say 'i need your help.

But for today it is working in this
awkward kind of working. And that
is enough for a beginning.

Naps can be devils of disorientation.

If you want to be loved, be lovable. It's a good place to start.

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

If there were no one else involved, it would be an easy choice. But isn't that always the case? And there's always someone else involved.

It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

Happy to see me and unhappy to see me at the same time

I can flirt with the best of them, but only when it doesn't matter.

If you want to be loved, be a lovable. It's a good place to start.

Jed
talks about the foreseeable future and
how little there is that we can foresee.

It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

I pressed my head into the pillow and I screamed.
Pure sound. No words. But it all came out as your name.

She is carrying herself through the day, and it's not an easy task.

I am starting to get tired of relying on words.

Even though it was hard to see you, it was good to see you.

Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.

If she lets go, it's all over. If I let go, it's all over. And because she is holding on so tight, I hold on so tight.

I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. She's hiding hers away, but at the same time she wants me to see it.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

...i think of friendship in terms of love...

Love, n.

I'm not going to even try.

Even though the world doesn't matter to her, she matters to the world

The key is to never recognize these imbalances. To not let the dauntingness daunt us.

No treaty but trenches
all quiet
years to years
home in no man's land.

Most babies come into the world crying or gasping or snotting.
Not Tiny Cooper.
He comes into the world singing.

I was still thinking he might come after me. Even after he left.

Sweaty palms. check. shaky bones. check. the feeling that all oxygen in the air has been replaced by helium. yup.

I've known this for a
while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you. Now it's
hitting me.

Maybe that's his thing. Maybe he's really that much of a dork. I could be friends with that kind of behavior.

He was the corner that her eyes always strayed toward

If other people see you differently, you'll end up seeing them differently, too.

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath.

I am seeing
that I cannot be a part of the music that sets him
free.

The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own.

It's hard to think of such things when you are busy dreaming or loving or screwing. The context falls away.

Every time you love someone, you put not just
your faith in them, but your faith in everything
to the test.

Even though you're not my type, gender wise, you're certainly my type, person-wise.

I have never told anyone the truth. I have never come close.

You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

The minute she left the apartment, I missed having her there. But as with all loves, I supposed, the consolation was in the fact that she'd be back.

C'mon, Paul," she says. "We all know love makes you do stupid things.

Love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.

We go for what feels like hours and also feels like no time at all.