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“Pretentious."
"So? I love pretentious people!"
"Why?"
"They try so hard to be interesting, you don't have to do any work.”
― J.C. Lillis, How to Repair a Mechanical Heart

“Cam shook his head. 'Do you ever listen to how much crazy shit comes out of your mouth?'

'Nope.' I hooked my fingers into his waistband and pulled him closer. 'Nobody does. That's why I remain undiagnosed.' ”
― Lisa Henry, Dark Space

“you’re too angry to be a nihilist.”
― Lisa Henry, Dark Space

“Sometimes he liked to think about leaving South Pass City and going west like he was meant to, like his dream-self had, except he suspected that the idea he had of what it would be like there was no more real than the version of himself that was whole. He would get there and it would be no different than here. Going west wouldn't heal him. Wouldn't transform him. Nothing would.
Even in a perfect world, Elijah would be flawed.”
― Lisa Henry, Sweetwater

“I'm keeping you. You ain't figured it out yet, but I'm keeping you.”
― Lisa Henry, Sweetwater

“How could I not be in love with a man who folded something after strangling me with it?”
― Nicole Castle, Chance Assassin: A Story of Love, Luck, and Murder

“I loved being in Frank’s arms. It felt special, being that the only other people he ever picked up were dead.”
― Nicole Castle, Chance Assassin: A Story of Love, Luck, and Murder

“Are you having a midlife crisis?”

“You’ll be having an end of life crisis if you say that again,” he threatened.”
― Nicole Castle, Chance Assassin: A Story of Love, Luck, and Murder

“He admitted to me that seeing a person die was one of the most incredible experiences he’d ever had. It made him feel human, watching the life leave their eyes. I tried to tell him that fucking me would make him feel like God, but he didn’t buy it.”
― Nicole Castle, Chance Assassin: A Story of Love, Luck, and Murder

“There was never a dull moment with Frank. Things you’d think would piss him off, like shooting him, he was happy about. But if you happen to order him a croissant at a diner because his stomach growled all during the morning’s blowjob, he gets all bent out of shape about it, as if you’ve alerted the entire country that he’s a foreigner, and then he refuses to fuck you in the men’s room after your meal.”
― Nicole Castle, Chance Assassin: A Story of Love, Luck, and Murder

“Frank took my hand and pressed it to his lips. Considering that my knuckles were bruised from punching him in the face, it should’ve come with the romantic gesture of the year award. Or a restraining order.”
― Nicole Castle, Chance Assassin: A Story of Love, Luck, and Murder

“We don’t hide crazy,” I said. “We put it on the porch and let it entertain the neighbors.”
― Nick Wilgus, Shaking the Sugar Tree

“I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now

“Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now

“Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now

“If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now

“If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now

“I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments, I was dying of loss.
The only help for my condition, then as now, is that I refused to let go of what I loved. I wrote everything down, at first in choppy fragments; a sentence here, a few words there, it was the most I could handle at the time. Later I wrote more, my grief muffled but not eased by the passage of time.
When I go back over my writing now I can barely read it. The happiness is the worst. Some days I can't bring myself to remember. But I will not relinquish a single detail of the past. What remains of my life depends on what happened six years ago.
In my brain, in my limbs, in my dreams, it is still happening.”
― Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now

“I guess people who are meant to be together will always find their way.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“It's not about him or you. It's what's between you, the connection.People can see it, even when you're trying to act casual. they don't want you, or him. Well, some do. But I think it's more...they want that energy, that ungraspable...something between you two."

"Is it love?”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“It was disappointing to discover that sex without love, no matter how much better equipped that other partner was, could still be enjoyable, but not as much, not by a long shot.”
― Jim Provenzano, Every Time I Think of You

“We were so happy, because we had no idea what was around the corner.”
― Jim Provenzano, Message of Love

“There’s no past tense when you lose someone, Jed. You just keep on loving them.”
― Garrett Leigh, Only Love

“There are enough people out there that will be more than willing to knock you down. There's no reason for you to do it to yourself.”
― T.J. Klune, Bear, Otter, and the Kid

“You've broken my heart, but it was mine to give.”
― T.J. Klune, Bear, Otter, and the Kid

“The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.”
― Paullina Simons, Tatiana and Alexander

“You're my heartbeat, Brady.”
― Lisa Henry, Dark Space

“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“I was shaking when our lips parted and he leaned his forehead against mine, his fingers carding through my hair, my hands on his face.

"I won't let them," Rafael said. "I won't let anyone take you away. I'll protect you. I'll always protect you. I don't care how. I just will.”
― Rose Christo, Gives Light

“I want to belong to you, like a name. I want to be a thing people have to know to know you.”
― Jesse Hajicek, The God Eaters