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You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes I wondered if I might go through my whole life looking for someone who came even a little bit close
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Greta always wanted to know everything. Every little detail. But I understood. You can ruin anything if you know too much.
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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.
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Until the last light faded. Until the space between the tree branches and the branches themselves became the same dark thing.
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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. — Carol Rifka Brunt
when it's only you and your sister, you can do any embarrassing thing you want.
— Carol Rifka Brunt
Who could resist the two of us all squashed into one beautiful person, right? He smiled.
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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.
— Carol Rifka Brunt
Because maybe I don't want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to remember something about me.
— Carol Rifka Brunt
How do you become someone with X-ray vision?
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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.
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Please promise to take the very best care of my only girl. With so much love my heart might split in two ...
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I thought how that was wrong and terrible and beautiful all at the same time.
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It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.
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And I suddenly understood that getting drunk was just one more way to leave this place, this time.
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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.
— Carol Rifka Brunt
Hm-hm-hm, his laugh went. Like he'd swallowed the sun.
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Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.
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I'm okay with one or two people, but more than that and I turn into a naked mole rat.
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I didn't say anything. Greta always knew how to make me lose my words.
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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.
— Carol Rifka Brunt
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.
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I didn't know how to seal a promise with a dead person.
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That's one of those snapshot moments. I don't know why some memories are like that, where everything is perfectly preserved. Frozen.
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Places we went back to so many times that they started to
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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.
— Carol Rifka Brunt
You can't keep friends if you always say no to things.
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But it's my face. Mine and Greta's. We don't belong to everybody.
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Once you know a thing you can't ever unknow it.
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She was wired into my heart. Twisted and kinked and threaded right through.
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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.
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I thought it was good to test yourself sometimes. It was good to see how much you could take.
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I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.
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I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.
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Maybe when you're dead you can crawl inside other people and make them nicer than they were before.
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Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don't want you to see. (p. 4)
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I dream about people who don't need to have sex to know they love each other.
— Carol Rifka Brunt
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.
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The kinds of things I want don't cost money.
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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.
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It felt like all the blood in my body had swum up to my face , leaving the skin around my heart completely transparent.
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Maybe there's a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them.
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Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.
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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.
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Either you're a falconer or you're not. Either the birds come back to you or they fly away.
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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.
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I want to imagine wrinkled time, and forests thick with wolves, and bleak midnight moors
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There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I'll carry them for the rest of my days.
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There was at least some small beauty in what we'd done.
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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.
— Carol Rifka Brunt
My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just the sandwich.
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You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.
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I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.
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We both knew we were the biggest nerds in the whole world.
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Beauty parlor was a game was used to play when we were little, when we were still best friends.
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Maybe all I wanted was for Toby to hear the wolves that lived in the dark forest of my heart.
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