“She's nervous.
Nervous, like tomorrow, a word for things that have not happened yet. A word for futures, when for so long all she's had are presents.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Nervous, like tomorrow, a word for things that have not happened yet. A word for futures, when for so long all she's had are presents.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“She could fall into this moment forever, but she knows there is no future in it. Only an infinite number of presents, and she has lived as many of those with Sam as she can bear.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“I used to be made of something other than nerve endings. But suddenly, that's all I am.”
― The Nightmare Before Kissmas
― The Nightmare Before Kissmas
“I see someone who cares,” she says slowly. “Perhaps too much. Who feels too much. I see someone lost, and hungry. The kind of person who feels like they’re wasting away in a world full of food, because they can’t decide what they want.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“I don't know what they want from me," he says. "I don't know who they want me to be. They tell you to be yourself, but they don't mean it, and I'm just tired..." His voice breaks. "I'm tired of falling short. Tired of being... it's not that I'm alone. I don't mind being alone. But this–" His fingers knot in his shirtfront. "It hurts.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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