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“We’d tear the universe apart for the people we love, but sometimes we forget to love ourselves. It’s not your fault, kid.”
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“She showed it to Hobart, who also loved it, and it made me feel, for the first time, that maybe it was dumb to be embarrassed about weird things if you were really good at them. Or not good. If they made vou happy.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
“We’d created meaning where there was none, but, I don’t know, isn’t that art? Or at least I think it’s the kind of art that I like, where the obsession of one person envelops other people, transforms them.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
“I just... you are the most beautiful and wonderful and strangest person I have ever met. You are the most amazing person in the world. And you just have to live long enough to make the rest of the world understand that, okay? You have to stay alive.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel
“All alcohol smells the same to me, of sadness and loss.”
― Fairy Tale
― Fairy Tale
“I guess I just mean that sometimes your mom says that things will be better for you in the future. And I think they will, Frankie. I think you're really smart and I think you'll do fine. But I also think it's not so bad if you never quite feel right in this world. It's still worth hanging around. You just have to look harder to find the things you love."
"Okay," I said. I kind of wanted to hug him.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
"Okay," I said. I kind of wanted to hug him.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
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