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"Coley didn't answer me. We listened to the pine boughs shake free more rain. It was growing darker with every word I wasted."

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Actually insane that it took her over 50% of the book to kick these people out of her goddamn house.... Girl go to therapy!!!! Self advocate!!!!! I'm begging you queen

"'We're friends who are figuring shit out,' I said, which at that point was the most honest and direct thing I'd said to Coley about me and my feelings, well, ever."

"The sound here carried itself in a peculiar way, hushed and fleeting, as if the air itself were afraid to wake something."

"That, she'd say, as he sat shivering on the floor, clutching his mug like he used to when he was little. That's what you put us through every time you go off the map. We all stop breathing until you get back."

"That's what happens in Minnesota. Old women freeze to death in their cars."

"... But I just kept thinking, Mom and Dad don't know about us. They don't know, so we're safe--even though there was no more Mom and Dad to know about anything."

"Take your echoes and pretend they are a voice."

"'I'm different now. And different is good, but it cuts both ways.'"

"'They're bunkmates,' Jane said. 'They should be holding hands.'"

"Blink, and half your life is gone. I do not want to die as I've lived: born and buried in the same ten meter plot."

"Jane wasn't afraid of the dark--she was ten--but right then, lights sounded like a good idea."

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"She realized the front of her pants was wet, and her face burned as she understood why. She was ten."

"she taught Jane about something called music, which was a weird bunch of sounds that had no point but made things feel a little better."

"When the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer and heard the rustling of the leaves and the warbling of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation."

"The only joy that he can now know will be when he composes his shattered spirit to peace and death."

"I fear, my beloved girl," I said, "little happiness remains for us on earth; yet all that I may one day enjoy is centered in you."

"Attraction can look an awful lot like recognition in the wrong light."

"I do not know," said the man, "what the custom of the English may be, but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains."

"She was happy to be in danger, because that danger came with a purpose, and she knew exactly what she wanted to do."

"The desert crowd had never heard Beatriz breathing softly in her sleep."

"If she did ask, I would say it was grief. The deepest grief. I know she would accept that as an answer. No one knows what's inside grief.

Anything at all can be there."

"Who needs glassthings when we can give each other our eyes?"

"His smile is a constellation. His smile is a movie and I'm in the dark, dreaming."

"Death is inevitable and the world is full of murder, Tom says, tenderly brushing a lock of hair from my eyes."

"Yet she also knew that to intervene in this way would disrupt something sacred that--at twelve and thirteen and fourteen years old--they we're learning about themselves and the world. And this, too, was how she thought of God."