You live for pretentious metaphors.
We can’t love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.
She spoke quietly then, the tiniest crack in her voice, and all at once Lacey Pemerton was not Lacey Pemberton. She was just – like, a person.
I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.
The abbreviated exam week meant that Wednesday was the last day of school for us. And all day long, it was hard not to walk around, thinking about the lastness of it all.
I know it’s impossible for you to see your peers this way, but when you’re older, you start to see them – the bad kids and the good kids and all kids – as people. They’re just people, who deserve to be cared for.
We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus...
At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.
She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth.
And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.
I’ve gotten really hot since you went blind.
I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.
We have bottled all the stars this evening, my young friend.
I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?
Everything that comes together falls apart.
I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.
I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for.
Indiana,’ he said. ‘They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?
Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.
I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.