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“We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own.”

Quote by Gayle Forman

Book:Where She Went

Work

This book follows the journey of a young man who grapples with his past and the legacy of a lost love. more

Author

Gayle Forman is an American author known for her young adult literature. Born on June 5, 1970, she is renowned for her emotionally rich and relatable stories that resonate with teenagers. more

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“And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging.”

Trying Years Enough Light Lost Kissing Skins Lips Currents Electric Brooklyn Spit Enough Time Electric Current Lost Years

Book:Where She Went

Source: Where She Went

“How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?”

Hands Fingers Unclear

Book:Where She Went

Source: Where She Went

“As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.”

Kind Ends Helping Certain Attitude Quality Cases Easier Harder Setting Settings Preference Continuity Aversion

Book:The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

Source: The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939

“There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.”

People Said Real School Sentences Popularity

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“Your friends are at the house.' I sit up, straight. 'Who'? 'I don't know. Weird people. The Sullivan girl, whose father got the Gosford police to pick you up.' 'Siobhan?' 'And another one who's making cups of tea for everyone, and keeping the boy who's telling Luca fart jokes away from the girl who says he's "the last bastion of patriarchal poor taste".' 'Justine, Thomas and Tara.' And the drug fiend, Jimmy, is keeping Mia calm and the Trombal boy's rung about ten times. I don't like his manner on the phone.' 'You won't like any guy's manner on the phone.”

People Knows Lasts Guy Girl Father House Poor Boys Taste Drug Ten Jokes Picks Police Calm Phones Cups Tea Jimmy Fart Cups Of Tea Mia Weird People Justine Poor Taste Will Trombal

Book:Saving Francesca

Source: Saving Francesca

“Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.”

Author:Warren Ellis

“Acheron always says that our scars are there to remind us of out pasts, of where we've been and what we've gone through. But that pain doesn't have to drive or determine our future. We can rise about it if we let ourselves. It's not easy, but nothing in life ever is." -Sundown”

Ifs Pain Past Easy Gone Determine Our Future Scar

Book:Retribution

Source: Retribution

“It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.”

Persons Stills Strange Clutch Distaste

Book:Chime

Source: Chime

“It wasn't quite a question. It was more of an invitation to tell him whatever I chose. Eldric game me a choice, and it was this that made me want to tell him everything.”

Want Made Choices Games Invitations

Author:Franny Billingsley

“It's the picnic principle. Things taste better outdoors. And if it's a forbidden thing, so much the better.”

Ifs Principles Taste Forbidden Picnics Forbidden Things

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