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“It frustrated him immensely that he would never be able to prove that time didn't stop when she met his eye. Though, he reminded himself, maybe if he committed it to memory then he could return to it in another shape, with better understanding.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“With the power of the written word, he turned his "little V." into an unstable teenage girl eaten up with jealousy. He said whatever he wanted; I was just a character now, living on borrowed time, like every other girl who'd come before me. It wouldn't be long before he erased me completely from the pages of his wretched diary. For his readers, it was merely a story, words. For me, it was the beginning of a breakdown.”
― Le Consentement
― Le Consentement
“As adolescence laid its awkward hands on me, I felt it only as an all-consuming solitude.”
― Le Consentement
― Le Consentement
“But I wasn't crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us.”
― Heaven
― Heaven
“It's obvious, don't you see it, can't you hear it? His name is written on my skin, he scarred me. I've changed my entire shape for having fit within the enormity of his thoughts, and now the only words I know are lines and color.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
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