“My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you're floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person's eyes. They're connected to yours by some invisible physical force, and they hold you fast while the rest of the world swirls and twirls and falls completely away.”
― Flipped
― Flipped
“A painting is more than the sum of the parts,” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you’ve got magic.”
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“You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.”
― Flipped
― Flipped
“Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.”
― Runaway
― Runaway
“Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair -- Look at what's really there.”
― Flipped
― Flipped
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