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“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”

“Between always and never”

“Having someone’s body to touch and being that someone we’re longing to touch are one and the same, just opposite banks on a river that passes from us to them”

“There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snow storm”

“So that you don’t forget to feel, so you don’t change into a picture on the wall, a chair in the living room, a piece of furniture in front of the T.V, into someone staring at a computer screen, into something inert, so that you don’t become something that hardly notices anything”

“If we give up on the impossible, to capture what’s out of life’s reach, we’ll fail, fail so completely that no power will be able to amend it…this is why Ari and I play music so loudly that Heaven simply has to hear it”

“You lose what you don’t think about”