When you’re young, you see only the future. When you grow older, you see the past.”
“Come the fall, I would be leaving for college and my mother would lose her little boy, and I would lose the person who had always been there for me, my fiercest advocate since the day I’d been born.”
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“But to my mother—I suspect to all mothers—their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become.”
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“We’d be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we’d become, or live with regret and disappointment.”
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“None of us are any one thing. We’re just a collection of the best and worst things we’ve done.”
― We Begin at the End
― We Begin at the End
“you do with an unattainable crush once it’s yours to keep? What does it become? Should there perhaps be a word to describe it? Because that’s the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.”
― Watching You
― Watching You
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