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“I think there’s something about the impermanence of life these days that makes it necessary to etch ink into our skin,” he says “it reminds us that we have been marked by the world that we are still alive. That we will never forget.”

“For all of its faults, I want to remember this life. I want to remember you.” OH MY FREAKIN EMOTIONS 😭😱😭😱😭

"Once Liz found comfort in me. Once she found it in holding my hand and dreaming until our dreams came true. Once she found it in simply being alive. Eventually she could no longer find comfort in anything. By the end she was just another girl stuffed full of forgotten dreams until she crashed her car and she wasn't even that."

"They just made sense to each other, was all." -New Hope

I glanced over at Leo, who had that look on his face, the one I used to see all the time when we first met and still saw a lot now, even with the bullies and the worry about money. The look of being alive. He wasn’t smiling, but his eyes had a brightness.

He wasn’t as different as I was. But he also wasn’t one of those lucky people who fit in all the time. And I thought of the first time I worked with him, what I’d seen. He did like the world—that was the thing about him that I liked the best—but the world didn’t always like him back.

Already completely in love with this book!

Of course there's a person named Noam in this book. Of course there is. And I have been wanting to read this book for how long. And now that I know a Noam I just end up reading It.

"Maybe it was time to let the pain back in."

Oh this book!