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“I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”
“We're so good at discovering patterns that we see them where they don't exist.”
“Milkshakes make the world seem less shitty.”
“It's a date." "It's a cookie." "It's a cookie date.”
“Bonding over illegal drugs hadn't magically solved our problems,”
“Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility.”
“I hate Jesse for leaving me behind. If he asked, I would have walked into the air with him.”
“Age isn't stealing from my grandmother; it's slowly unwinding her.”
“She's the gristle stuck between Time's teeth, and I love her for it.”
“No doesn't mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car.”
“And I stood there and took it because I was an object. We were all objects to Marcus McCoy.”
“I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.”
“History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are.”
“Popularity is teenage heroin.”
“When the days are darkest, dear, you latch on to hapiness wherever you find it.”
“That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them.”
“Doodling the variations of your combined names on the cover of your notebook.”
“Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.”
“I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break. Inside, though, I was already broken.”
“We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.”
“Sometimes, Henry, remembering hurts too much.”