“But I know the difference. Everyone else is a ghost. I exist here alone, stranded by choice. Deserted. ”
― Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
― Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
― Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“She once told me that she loved me because I was the only thing she could hear. She can feel the vibration of the strings through the carved vessel of her instrument, but I am inside her. I am a song soaked into each bone of her secret body where the world has not been able to wander.”
― The Secret Lives of People in Love
― The Secret Lives of People in Love
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.”
― Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
― Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
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