“This is what they don’t tell you about losing someone: It doesn’t happen once. It happens every day, every moment they’re missing from. You lose them a hundred times between waking and sleep, and even sleep is no respite, because you lose them in your dreams, too.”
― Cam Girl
― Cam Girl
“What if the only thing that's standing between us right now is our fear?”
― The Summer I Wasn't Me
― The Summer I Wasn't Me
“There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you’ve known your whole life.”
― Unteachable
― Unteachable
“Our eyes meet and hold, and the world starts to fall away, time does, years rolling up like rugs, until everything that’s happened unhappens, and for a moment, it’s us again, more one than two.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
“He talked about the ocean between people. And how the whole point of everything is to find a shore worth swimming to.”
― Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
― Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
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