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“None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom or indifference over his inward joy.”

“Maybe things can get better between people who want to do a great job loving each other. Maybe that’s all it takes.”

“I was selfish, I was hurtful. I tortured the ones I loved.
I was like Cathy, like Wuthering Heights, onl much better than hers, neither one evil, neither sat, crying about it, not doing anything producti like Cathy.”

“Time passes Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange pitches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.”

“…Murphy was going to cut all her hair off then, because it’s what you do when you lose your indian girlfriend. It’s what you do to mark the beginning of the next part of your life. You can’t be who you were anymore, the person can’t deal with not having the someone she loves around, so you have to be somebody else.”

“…Halloween wasn’t just about the candy, was it? It was about running through the darkness from house to house, your costume falling apart all around you, skeletons and ghouls and ghosts on every sidewalk, coffins and zombies stationed on the lawns, spring loaded to stop their hearts for a moment, so they could restart them with shrieks and laughter.”

“About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part of him—and I didn’t know how potent that part might be—that thirsted for my blood. And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.”