“Stars in the sky, stars on the ground. It’s hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins. I feel the need to say something grand and poetic, but the only thing I come up with is “It’s lovely.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can’t help thinking she’s more than that and she’s got other elements going on that no one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else. I feel this brief panic as I think, What would happen if one of those elements malfunctioned or just stopped working altogether? I make myself push this aside and concentrate on the feel of her skin until I no longer see molecules but Violet.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
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