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- I wonder if she has figured out that I'll never love Linden, especially not in the way she does, and that he'll never love anyone…
- Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year…
- I shake my head, watching snow tumble and swirl from an all-white sky. The world seems so clean if you only look up
- Tell me about yourself." "Myself?" He looks confused. "Yes," I say, patting the mattress. "You know all there is to know," he says, sitting beside…
- Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. They’re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred, scorched…
- For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
- I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.
- He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges…
- Do you know what my father used to say?" I ask her. "He used to say that songs had a heart. A crescendo that can…
- Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.
- I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.
- Linden just wants to protect her, is what I want to say. She's all he has. I left him. I'm at arms reach, but I've…
- She would do anything, anything to belong to his son after a lifetime of belonging to no one at all.
- He looks at me, and I don't know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she's not here with us now,…
- I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay…
- When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it…
- There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at…
- I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband…
- Someday I'll tell you all of it," I say. "I'd like that," he says. "No," I say. "I promise you won't.
- Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.
- I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.
- They never exhale, the trees; on a very windy day, they rustle and inhale, and then the leaves and the branches all tremble as though…
- and I've always known it, the way I love a song I hear for the first time, even before I know all the words, the…
- Time was our very first king. We all live our lives to the aggressive ticking of the clock. We don't question that our lives are…
- I had this feeling like the solution to everything would be down there if only I could dig through all those clouds.
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