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“Na direção do meu futuro. O futuro que eu conquistei. O futuro que ninguém jamais ousará tirar de mim.”

“E eu também sei como eles vão contar essa história. Acontece o mesmo com qualquer mulher que desafia seu lugar no mundo. Jasão será o herói, e você? Ou vão te transformar em sua donzela adorável e apaixonada, ou vão te transformar na vilã. São os únicos papéis que eles se sentem confortáveis que nós ocupemos.”

“Não é desconcertante como os homens conseguiram enganar todo mundo, fazendo-os pensar que são o sexo mais inteligente?”

“Todos os mortais querem acreditar que são importantes, que sua existência tem propósito. Mas a realidade é que muito poucas vidas carregam qualquer tipo de significado. A maioria dos humanos é insuportavelmente desinteressante, não é?”

“I think the things we make up in our heads, the assumptions we make, wind up being much worse than what’s really going on.”

“She knew this was because real people were both good and bad, all mixed up together, only the screen made everyone into basic silhouettes. The resulting image could appear either way depending on which way you turned it, which details you showed.”

“Joan se perguntou o quanto devia ser cômodo pensar como Barbara. Como devia ser tranquilo para sua consciência pensar que as coisas simplesmente aconteciam com você. E que tudo no mundo girava ao seu redor. E que os seus sentimentos eram os únicos que importavam.”

“E quero ficar de mãos dadas com você num lugar escondidinho, e deitar na cama e ouvir seu coração com o ouvido colado no seu peito. Quero te trazer café na cama. E quero ouvir você me contar tudo o que sempre quis contar para alguém. Porque quero que você saiba que conheceu alguém que quer muito ouvir tudo.”

“O céu inteiro faz sentido para mim agora”, continuou Vanessa. “Graças a você.”
E Joan pensou: Ah, não. Não. Não. Não.”

“Marianne, he said, I’m not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me.”

“In just a few weeks’ time Marianne will live with different people, and life will be different. But she herself will not be different. She’ll be the same person, trapped inside her own body. There’s nowhere she can go that would free her from this. A different place, different people, what does that matter?”

“I love you too.”
“And to think,” he said, “you promised you wouldn’t fall in love with me.”

“Breaking up still sucked in every conceivable way, but once the initial pain wore off, memories from our relationship started to seem like just another story I’d read. I hated thinking about it. Not because I missed him but because I felt bad for wasting so much of his time—and mine—trying to be his dream girl.”

“Life is pretty much a series of good and bad moments right up until the moment you die,” he said stiffly. “Which is arguably a bad one. Love doesn’t change that.”

“Then, a final and totally random concluding side point about how annoying it is when the female protagonist claims she never wants to get married, yet somehow gets to have the biggest wedding in town.”

“God, we’re all so ridiculous! Why do we all think everything is our fault all the time?”
“Must be some evolutionary thing.”
“Helps us survive somehow,” Phoebe says. “Even as it destroys us.”
“Yeah.”

“Some men like being told what to do, because then they never have to make any decisions, never have to think.”

“And I think you’re all being very brave.”
We don’t have much choice, but it’s nice to have someone recognize it.”

“But luckily, Phoebe’s phone is dead. She decides never to look at her phone again. She doesn’t see the point in staying alive only to do all the same things that made her want to die.”

“I already told you, Nora,” he murmurs, his fingers splaying on my stomach, just beneath my shirt. “I’ll go anywhere with you.”
Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.”

“I feel haunted by him, and I’m determined to haunt him right back.”

“I’ve never met someone who is both so vain and so practical,” he says, sounding just barely awed.
“Which will be what actually goes on my headstone.”

“Oh no,” I say, feigning pity. “Did I hurt your feelings, Charlie?”
“You seem pretty pleased with yourself,” he says, “for a woman who just found out she was the inspiration for Cruella de Vil.”

“Nora Stephens.” My name sounds like a swear.”

“What I’m realizing is that if you’re quiet about the things that hurt you, people are only going to mistake your tolerance for permission. And they’re going to hurt you again and again.”

“His girl. His love. His Lucy Gray. They had survived the dean, the doctor, and the Games somehow. After all the weeks of fear and yearning and uncertainty, he would wrap her in his arms and never let her go.”

“When Julius crosses the finish line alone, the indisputable winner, to wild roars from the spectators, a grin splits over my face.
But I bite it back down when he walks straight over to me. The gold medal swings from his neck, gleaming in the sunlight. He takes it off, then holds it out toward me.
“Yours.”
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“He felt his lips stretching into an insane grin. He had won. He’d won glory, and a future, and maybe love, too. Any minute now, he’d have Lucy Gray in his arms. Oh, Snow lands on top; it most certainly does. ”

“You’re the only person worth paying attention to.”