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“The stars are too vibrant to not chase after.”

“Nobody hides like tears. We could learn a thing or two from them.”

“He didn’t say everything would be okay because it wasn’t — it would never be as it had been. The past had a perfection that the future could never hold.”

“They’d made a pact to be friends forever, but forever could be so, so brief.”

“There is an emotion that operates on a register above sherry terror. It lives on a mindless dog-whistle frequency. Its existence is in itself a horrifying discovery: like scanning a shortwave radio in the dead of the night and tuning it to an alien wavelength—a heavy whisper barely climbing above the static, voices muttering in a brutal language that human tongues could never Speak.”

“The more detail you get into, the more fun it gets.”

“No plan survives first contact with the enemy.”

“I took a breath from Rover planning. Instead, I spent the day taking drugs and playing with radiation.”

“The worst moments in life are heralded by small observations.”

“Stay strong, don’t die, your father says hello.”

“Godspeed, little taters. My life depends on you.”

“Hell yeah I’m a botanist! Fear my botany powers!”

Life doesn’t go on, it starts again, everything is possible once more. Anything can happen, all the best and all the most beautiful and all the biggest adventures in the world.”

“They’ll soon be grown men, and all they will talk about then as each year passes will be more about memories and less about dreams. This is the end of the age when everything is still possible.”

“If the person I used to fear is now my protector, which of us has changed sides?”

“Where you are born and who you become is a cruel lottery.”

“The end of life is as unstoppable as its beginning, we can’t stop the first and last breaths we take any more than we can stop the wind.”

“And the sun rises. Tomorrow, again.”

“The path back to normal life is indescribably long once death has swept the feet out from under those of us who are left.”

“When guys are scared of the dark, they’re scared of ghosts and monsters, but when girls are scared of the dark, they’re scared of guys.”

“Men are busy, but boys don’t stop growing. Sons want their fathers’ attention until the precise moment when fathers want their sons’. From then on we’re all doomed to wish that we’d spent more time sitting on the floor while they were playing. Hugged them while they still let us.”

“Everyone is a hundred different things, but in other people’s eyes we usually get the chance to be only one of them.”

“Another morning comes. It always does. Time always moves at the same rate, only feelings have different speeds. Every day can mark a whole lifetime or a single heartbeat, depending on who you spend it with.”

“There’s nothing more human than a broken heart.”

“Maybe this place is like the bright beacon in a vast, dark space. Maybe they see the potential of us, but also how easily we could be lost. It’s a fine balance, don’t you think? The line between love and fire is very thin.”

“The inside jokes weren’t jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.”

“I feel infinite.”

“I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“I’ve decided that I’m going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up”