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You don't exist if no one can see you.

love is just chemicals and coincidence.

It's not your fault. Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

your world can change in a single moment.

I love you, Maddy." "I love you, Olly. I loved you before I knew you.

I know there's no such thing as meant-to-be, and yet here I am wondering if maybe I've been wrong.

Maybe it does bother me,' he says, 'but only peripherally. It's like a buzzing fly, you know? Annoying, but not actually life-threatening.

All of which isn't to say that Jeremy Fitzgerald did the right thing or the wrong thing. It's only to say this: love always changes everything.

My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.

Isn't growing apart a part of growing up?

It's hard to love someone who doesn't love you back

America's not really a melting pot. It's more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies.

A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again.

Even I'm surprised by how much I've been feeling for her all day. The thing about falling is you don't have any control on your way down. I

How chocolate turned white and the milk turned brown, and how sometimes you can't unmix things no matter how much you might want to.

a star, and it's our most important one. That alone should

Life is just a series of dumb decisions and indecisions and coincidences that we choose to ascribe meaning to.

Beware the Queen of Hearts. She'll have your head.

I could stay here forever interrupting our talking with kissing, interrupting our kissing with talking.

Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they're dead?

The highest thing you can do is the thing God put you on this earth to do.

Be more specific, please. Olly: jesus. girls. ocean blue

Well, I think there's something wrong with everyone, don't you?

His eyes are a clear, summer-blue lake that I can't see the bottom of.

I don't believe in love" -Natasha
"It's not a religion. It exists whether you believe in it or not" -Daniel

that there's some meaning, some willfulness to life. Fairness. Basic decency. Good things happen

I turn in his arms, thinking how quickly it's become my favourite place in the world. Familiar, foreign, comforting, and thrilling all at once

Time is precious, she says, and it's rude to waste someone else's.

My stomach does a little flip thing that I'm realy ging yo have to get used to, since it seems to be a side effect of seeing him.

Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself.

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.

peaceful and strangely euphoric.

They don't know what poor is. They don't know that poverty is a sharp knife carving away at you. They don't know what it does to the body. To a mind.

I love the way she seems to feel things with her entire body. I wonder why a girl who is so obviously passionate is so adamantly against passion.

Practicality is overrated.

There's more to life than being alive.

I am not a princess. And I don't need rescuing.

Having dreams never killed anybody.

But for that thank you.
The fact that someone saw her was the beginning.

You're afraid of becoming your dad. You don't want to choose the wrong thing, so you don't choose anything at all.

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it." Her

How can you trust something that can end as suddenly as it begins?

But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly's lips against mine.

His words made me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscle like any other. It can hurt.

Our history is too compressed. We're trying to fit a lifetime into a day.

Carla lives for cat videos. She thinks they're the only thing the Internet is good for.

No one needs to get bruised up falling in love. I just want to fall the way everybody else gets to.

Love always changes everything.

One day I will write an ode about kissing. I will call it "Ode to a Kiss".

It will be epic.

Hearts don't break. They just stop working. An old watch from another time and no parts to fix it.

Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it's impossible to tell the difference.

I want to fall in love, with an emphasis on the falling part.

The smile he gives me is worth living for.

ahh, calculus. the mathematics of change

You can do every goddamn thing right, and your life can still turn to shit.

Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.
Love is a terrible thing and I want nothing to do with it.

He's much too smart to fall for this, but he wants it to be true. He wants it to be true more than he wants the truth.

Observable Fact: Families are the worst.

...no one can put a price on losing everything.

Dark matter is love. It's the attracting force.

Life is hard, honey. Everyone finds a way.

There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.

Trying not to smile only makes you smile more.

he can't see past his own history to let us have ours.

Love can't kill me," I say, parroting Carla's words.
"That's not true," she says. "Whoever told you that?

oh jesus. that is not a good joke Madeline: Made you smile though. Olly: yeah it did

America is the land of opportunity. His children will have more than he once did.

I'll never get to the end of all the ways I want to be with him.

It's not up to you to help other people fit you into a box.

If people who were actually born here had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

Who knew you were this stubborn?" Not me. I didn't know I was this stubborn.

Names are powerful things.

A photograph is a kind of time machine.

You're not living if you're not regretting.

Doomed love is a part of life.

Wanting leads to more wanting. Desire has no end.

The universe stops and waits for us.

Maybe we can't predict the future, but we can predict some things.

I wonder if she realizes how passionate she is about not being passionate.

Be careful because once you become a part of the world it becomes a part of you, too.

Spoiler alert: Boys are savages.

I was happy before I met him. But I'm alive now, and those are not the same thing.

The thing about falling is you don't have any control on your way down" -Daniel

It's soothing to see an entire world at once-to see the pieces and know how it all fits together

He looks like a starving man, like he could devour me all at once. "That swimsuit," he begins. "Is small," I conclude.

When you're born, they (God or little aliens or whoever) should send you into the world with a bunch of free passes.

Apparently-according to these posters, at least-only certain hairstyles are allowed to attend board meetings.

How can I live the rest of my life in this bubble now that I know all that I'm missing?

Love won't kill you.
-Carla

Sometimes your world shakes so hard, it's difficult to imagine that everyone else isn't feeling it too.

Considering what the future may hold, jumping off this cliff doesn't seem so scary at all.

Stories help shape the way we see ourselves in the world. They help tell us who we can be and what we can achieve.

I don't know where I'm going, but I have to get to him. I don't know what I'm doing, but I have to protect him.

Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.

We're not meant to be, Daniel. I'm an undocumented immigrant. I'm being deported. Today is my last day in America. Tomorrow I'll be gone.

Why was the boy surprised to find celery growing out of his ears?

Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.

The ocean here is weird. It's the wrong kind of blue.

Maybe I'm holding out hope that one day, someday, things will change.