You saved me life, she tried to tell him. Not forever, not for good. Probably just temporarily. But you saved my life, and now I’m yours. The me that’s me right now is yours. Always.
I’d rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing.
Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you’re still not better off without it.
What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.
He made her feel like more than the sum of her parts.
I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months – they’re like dog months.
I love you more than I hate everything else.
Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.
I don’t have to forgive you, Cath said. It’s not like that with you. You’re just in with me. Always. No matter what happens.
I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.
That’s the ultimate kind of broken. The kind of damage you never recover from.
I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.
Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I’m a complete disaster.
There was just no fear in her.
That girl had the subtlety of a Spencer’s Gifts shop.
Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.
A little manic was what their house ran on.
She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice – a fetal smile – and it very nearly killed her.
I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.