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“You wanted to think of yourself as someone who did these kinds of things.”

“Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine. / I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.”

“The moment this fullness of his life would be born would be the moment of his death”

Waterfall for example is not composed of its individual drops for single drops would never constitute a waterfall but drops nonetheless do exist

“The fact is it would be enough if…if I moved at all…providing I simply moved , just carried along walking through the fresh air, I would achieve what I had set out to do”

As long as you keep trying, you are doing something.

Sometimes, when we’re out at the shopping center or supermarket, I’ll catch a glimpse of some dark-haired figure and drift in that direction, my tongue caught, my lungs bucking, and try to call forth his name. But I can’t, and it won’t be him”

“you could only guess whether things were waxing or waning in this existence, and that the best we could ever do was commemorate any beauty”

“I liked the idea of the final measure of a person being what one person would say while holding nothing back”

“I could feel her leg before I heard it, the melodies reaching down my spine and warming my vertebrate”

“I wanted time to slow down and let me keep reliving these moments with Nathan over and over, forever eighteen”

“Whatever happened in the future, I was his first, and that would always be. Huh.”

“We’ll speak of two young men who found much happiness for a few weeks and lived the remainder of their lives dipping cotton swabs into that bowl of happiness, fearing they’d use it up…But going back is false m. Moving ahead is false z Looking the other way is false. Trying to redress all that is false turns out to be just as false”

“I want to know you, and through you, me”