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"The only way for her to get closer to the center was to strive for whiteness, knowing she'd never attain it. What is a little erasure if it ensures excellence? It's just a little bit of yourself. The bit that doesn't fit."

Book club back at it again!!!

“Wherever the intention of each might lie, we are together being carried along at the same speed down the same river of time.”

“”It’s not a question of what I think. It’s a part of being nineteen years old. I used to be nineteen myself once. I know what it’s like.””

“You’re my penicillium”

“The Most Beautiful Moment In Life: Young Forever”

""[E]asily flying away, vanishing, coming together, crumbling again, being captured once more... These feelings repeating."" (Description of HYYH)

“I was wondering if we could pursue our happiness a little first and then think about what was going to happen, while he believed we had to give our all now for the sake of later happiness.”

“Yeehaw”

"Almost dying at a young, tragic age loses its seductive qualities the moment you turn twenty-five."

"I only listen to songs because they tell the truth. The more stupid they are, the more honest."

“There’s always that old saying, ‘We’re living off hope,’ but I’m starting to think hope is the one living off us.”

“”They say love is blind but who knows—with you blindness might just be another way of seeing…””

“Watch out. First it’s a way of looking at the world, then it becomes a way of life. Seeing everything as twisted gives you crooked vision.”

"...it was pleasurable for her to see herself in my silently adorning gaze, where she reigned--I was her kingdom; seated on the edge of my bed, leaning tenderly over me, she let herself be loved."

"I'm tired."

"The creature has a frown on its face and a teardrop under one of its eyes.

"I see it now, it looks just like me,""

"He is smiling when he kisses me, leaning in and kissing me. And I feel so light. God, I feel so light"

"I've always been great at playing the role of best friend: I pull on my clothes; I give him a smile; I leave his bedroom, his house; and I come to school the next day and pretend with him. That was always my role. The best friend who pretends."

"Beware of losing yourself in the personality of another being, man or woman."

""I hate the dark," Amory objected. "I didn't use to--except when I was particularly imaginative, but now, I really do[...]""

"He lay awake in the darkness and wondered how much he cared-- how much of his sudden unhappiness was hurt vanity whether he was, after all, temperamentally unfitted for romance."

""What's the matter, Amory? Amory's thinking about poetry, about the pretty birds and flowers. I can see it in his eye.""

“The thread of life is as tough as an ox tendon, so even after I lost you, it had to go on.”