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How is it that she spoke to you of such things?" Quintana asked.
"Oh, you know. She opened her mouth and words came out.

We were playing Rock, Paper, Scissors," she told him once. "I was paper and she was rock so I lived and she died.

It's kind of like a grief, and it's not a puzzle that you're supposed to work out on your own,

She was the most beautiful woman in the world. If she was alive I'd probably be a better person.

I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction.

Even five minutes of your time can make someone's day,

Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

Do I have to be here to belong to you?' Froi asked. 'Can't I belong to you wherever I am?

What do you want from me? he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

I wanted to say, 'Your face has been taken by another, so I've forgotten the malice in your eyes and the bitterness of your mouth.

When she's gone, Tom dares to look at Sam and then the ultrasound photo again. You've fathered the elephant man. Someone has to tell her.

Like some crazed masochistic yo-yo

I'm frightened that one morning there will not be enough to keep me going.

I would like to die of natural causes and not of boredom

Sentimental, Arjuro? You of all people."
"Me of all people can be as sentimental as he pleases.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

The girls would always tell me not to take things personally, but I never believed there was any other way of taking it.

Froi heard Zabat's voice echo over and over again throughout the gorge. Wonderful. The gods had found a way of multiplying the idiot's voice.

From this distance everything is so bloody perfect.

I just don't trust people who have bodies that change with their moods.
Well then you'll never trust the opposite sex again.

I think that we vote, not to get the best party in, but to keep the worst party out.

I don't get chosen for things unless there is a motive.

He was very solemn; she wasn't. Phaedra couldn't stop smiling.

Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. commit it to memory and make good use of it.

The greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

Wives can replace their husbands, Georgie," her aunt once told her. "But sisters can't replace their brothers.

There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

This morning, my mother didn't get out of bed.

If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

I've had it with this waiting business. I can cope with another woman, but I can't cope with being ignored when there's nothing in his way.

Left alone with the dial tone ... excuse me, operator, why is no one listening?

Your problems are out there. But they're small. They only grow out of proportion when they climb inside your head.

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

Can you not see [hope] burning in her eyes? Does it not make you want to look away when you have none to give in return?

There are worse things than a lie and there are better things than the truth!

Somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted.

He held her against him and for once he understood what she had felt every day that he had known her

You can't go around feeling too much.

You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

Woman, I'm trying to fight here! Or has that escaped your attention?

One day" came.
Because finally I understood.

I remember passion.

I'm not interested in those who do me wrong. There's not enough time in the day for them.

I think I'm a bit in love with these girls. They make me feel giddy. Like I haven't a care in the world. Like I'm fearless.
Like I used to be.

It's against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

Sheep. Looting. Cousins.
Lucien cursed and got out of bed.

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

Stop. Revive. Survive

Fear's good. It keeps interesting

Because we don't live in a society anymore, Tom. We live in an economy. We're not citizens. We're customers.

I can hazard a guess, but I'll never know/ Why you put these walls up, I can't get through/It's as though you want to be lonely and blue.

Later, when they were almost asleep he had called out to her.
'Finke?'
'Yeah?'
'We'll make a great team. You plant. I build,

Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage are in his soul. Just in case

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

Just 'Your mother.'" But it doesn't work if girls say it to each other," she continues. "You have to have a penis for it to affect you in such a way.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says.
"I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my life.

It was the type of pain he felt he could endure for as long as he had to.

I'm going to paste it up on the wall so my dickhead uncle sees it the moment he walks in and stops going on about me losing it.

Her voice stopped him. I woke with your name on my lips every morning. Like a prayer of hope. For now, that's all I can offer.

I'm a waste of space.

Our voices sound kinder in the skin of our own language.

When I grow up, I'm going to be my mother.

Love always,
Always,
Tom

You are mistaking me for someone with choices, Froi. I don't have choices.

I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a crush on him.

One day Tate was there, a ghost of Tate

This is war," he say quietly.
"Well thank God you're dressed for it, Griggs.

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

We look at each other for a moment and for once I feel awkward. It's not that I'm not into humility; I've just never had to practise it.

If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.

People divulge things to you that they would not divulge to anyone else.

Go to hell," he said, but there was a desolate fear in his eyes and I couldn't look away.
"Been there. Trust me. It's so overrated.

Do something that scares you everyday.

I've been in that void,' she told me once. 'Don't you ever give in to it

You go shake your foundations, Will. I think it's about time I saved myself.

Did he say my name?"
"Did he have to? When your name is written all over his heart?

Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years?

My king?"

"Yes, my queen?"

"Take me home.

You are strong and young, and you will find a way out of this darkness. But that path will belong to you. No one else.

Webb read fantasy; Jude read realism

He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

To have somone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

It will make her stronger."
"She was strong enough!

I love it when you're demented like this.

Why do they always have to remember the pathetic stuff? Why can't they ever remember something positive being said about me?

What's the difference between a trip and a journey?"
"Narnie, my love, when we get there, you'll understand.

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

But of course the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another

Causing a riot is what I do best.

Hatred smothers all beauty.

My ideal community? Anywhere but here.

I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away.

And we all end up where we started

People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it hard to forgive.

Someone had to be blamed. Someone had to die. ( ... ) What you can't understand, you destroy.

He chanced a look at her and saw the flare of something in her eyes. A salve to the emptiness that sometimes threatened to suffocate him.

Words are intimacy she won't allow and he would not dare ask for.

Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.