“Years later, in a high-school biology class, Samuel heard a story about a certain kind of African turtle that swam across the ocean to lay its eggs in South America. Scientists could find no reason for the enormous trip. Why… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
“What Faye won't understand and may never understand is that there is not one true self hidden by many false ones, Rather, there is… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
“This was the price of hope, he realized, this shattering disappointment.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
“When all you have is the memory of a thing," she said, "all you can think about is how the thing is gone.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
“That face they thought looked like patience but actually looked like they were quietly shitting pinecones.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
“If a new beginning is really new, it will feel like a crisis. Any real change should make you feel, at first, afraid. If… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
“...she’s aware that she is only partly doing this because she genuinely wants to. Se’s also doing this because she wants to prove something… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
“She'd decided that about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you're twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
“Anger was such an easy emotion to feel, the refuge of someone who didn't want to work too hard.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
“Love -- real, genuine, unasked-for-love -- made room for more of itself, it turned out. Love, when freely given, duplicates and multiplies.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
“...sometimes a crisis is not really a crisis at all - just a new beginning. Because one thing she’s learned through all this is… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
“Sometimes we're so wrapped up in our own story that we don't see how we're supporting characters in someone else's.” — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
“Years later, in a high-school biology class, Samuel heard a story about a certain kind of African turtle that swam across the ocean to… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
“But it seems to Samuel that all the school is preparing them for is to sit quietly and fake that they're working. To feign… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share
