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“tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.”
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“I'm very polite by nature, even the voices in my head let each other finish their sentences.”
― Unspent Time
― Unspent Time
“everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.”
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“He looked at the side of her face, at her pensive mouth, her clever eyes. He couldn’t bear it anymore. “June, what am I to you?
The breeze made her flutter her eyelashes low. “What do you want to be to me?”
“Everything,” he replied. “I want to be what makes you smile when we come home to each other and I want to be what makes you settle under a full moon and I want to be what makes you wild when I’m gone and I want to be what makes you laugh when I’m inside you and I want to be what makes you weep when I die and I want to be everything else in between and I want to take you out into the world and see it with you, but if it has to be here, then here is where I land.”
Words rarely came easily to Tucker, but they didn’t stop coming then, breaking through the surface until there were no more left. He wanted her to know. He wanted every part of her to know, in a thorough way, in a way that left no room for doubt.
June whispered, “Then that’s what you should be to me.”
― The Listeners
The breeze made her flutter her eyelashes low. “What do you want to be to me?”
“Everything,” he replied. “I want to be what makes you smile when we come home to each other and I want to be what makes you settle under a full moon and I want to be what makes you wild when I’m gone and I want to be what makes you laugh when I’m inside you and I want to be what makes you weep when I die and I want to be everything else in between and I want to take you out into the world and see it with you, but if it has to be here, then here is where I land.”
Words rarely came easily to Tucker, but they didn’t stop coming then, breaking through the surface until there were no more left. He wanted her to know. He wanted every part of her to know, in a thorough way, in a way that left no room for doubt.
June whispered, “Then that’s what you should be to me.”
― The Listeners
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