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"But to her surprise, although the color of the ink occasionally bled from purple to pink to black to blue and back to purple again, the writing itself never faltered, growing smaller and if any thing even denser, straight through to the very last, tightly packed page.

The girl had run out of paper before she ran out of words."

"Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time... In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate."

"31. "Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we a in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding." -Milan Kundera, Book of Lang ter and Forgetting, 1980.

"I don't mind thinking of the world without me because I'm unexceptional. but I hate the idea of the world without old Jiko. She's totally unique and spe-cial, like the last Galapagos tortoise or some other ancient animal hobbling around on the scorched earth, who is the only one left of its kind."

"Ruth looked more closely at the letters. They were round and a little bit sloppy (as she now imagined the girl must be, too), but they stood more or less upright and marched gamely across the page at a good clip, not in a hurry, but not dawdling, either. Sometimes at the end of a line, they crowded cach other a little, like people jostling to get onto an elevator or into a subway car, just as the doors were closing"

"Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanic transaction with the reader's eye.

Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, ant is as intimate as skin."

"Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanic transaction with the reader's eye.

Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, ant is as intimate as skin."

"I'm not the way I am because of what I dreamt and remembered about my aunt helen."

I'd disagree but to each their own

"And even though I didn't know you, I felt like I did because you sounded like such a good person. The kind of person who wouldn't mind receiving letters from a kid. The kind of person who would understand how they were better than a diary because there is communion and a diary can be found."

WHO are we?

"...I just can't stop thinking that the little kid eating French fries with his mom in the shopping mall is going to grow up and hit my sister. I'd do anything not to think that."

Did he see that guy within that child? How do the two correlate?

"And i just couldn't talk with Mary Elizabeth or anybody or my brother or anybody in my family. Except maybe my aunt Helen. But she's gone. And even if she were here, I don't think I could talk to her either. Because I'm starting to feel like what I dreamt about her last night was true. And my psychiatrist's questions weren't weird after all."

"I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart."

"I got in my dad's car, and drove away. And I could hear all these songs on the radio, but the radio wasn't on. And when I got into the driveway, I think I forgot to turn off the car. I jist went to the couch in the family room where the TV is. And I could see the TV shows, but the TV wasn't on."

"It's just that I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don't want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so i can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me. And if they do something I don't like, I'll tell them."

"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."

"And my mom kept shushing my grandfather, who kept talking about how many black people were in the school."


First of all ??????? 😭😭😭😭😭
I haven't heard a single person of color mentioned in this book???

"When I was driving home, I just thought about the word "special". And I thought the last person who said that about me was my Aunt Helen. I was very grateful to have heard it again."

"Charlie. Please don't take this the wrong way. I'm not trying to make you feel uncomfortable. I just want you to know that you are very special... and the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has."

"I want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So, I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world."

"We hugged good night, and when I was just about to let go, he held me a little fighter. And he moved his face to mine. And he kissed me. A real kiss. Then, he pulled away slowly." WOOOOAHHHH PATRICK???? Why the fuck does Charlie have so much play??? 😭😭😭😭😭

"There's nothing like the deep breaths after laughing that hard.
Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. It was that great."

"I'm now up to 10 cigarettes a day."