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All of the crazy, risky, wild, dangerous, irrational things I'd been doing, like rushing through my firsts. I'd been wrong, desperate. Just waiting for the end." - Edie

Or maybe they weren’t changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.

Fifteen and on the brink, that’s what Mum says about me. On the brink. Like it’s the continental shelf or something. On the brink of what? I want to yell. A rich and meaningful life? Disaster?

My darlings! You can hardly expect an aged crone like me to mar such a lovely event. No, I shall remain here and knit shadows. Now go forth and shine bravely, and think of nothing but love.

And i still don't know how to make sense of the world. but maybe it's okay that it's bigger than what we can hold on to.

The terrible price of living, ain’t it? To live through others dying?

Neither of us fit in, so instead we fit together.

not knowing what I needed to do or where I needed to go, I knew all the same that I was going in the right direction.

Sometimes we called one another by our future doctor names. We did it partly to be funny, but mostly because we liked it when people did it back to us.

It is very often the ordinary things that go unnoticed that end up making a difference. As you embark upon your high school careers, be unnoticed, but be remarkable.

Logan must survive. That is the only truth. The only goal. My sole mission.

We love each other. You love me, you do.” His eyes beseech me to believe it, to remember it, to feel it.

The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living.

All I can think about is how I wanted to share those firsts with Logan and how I never knew it was an impossibility because it had already been taken away from me.

It's not about becoming a movie star. It's about the down-in-the-dirt art of inhabiting the person you aspire to be while carrying on your shoulders the uncertain and hungry man you know you are.

She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.

Veins raised themselves along the backs of my hands that summer. My handwriting changed several times. I began reading Time magazine. Soon after that it was time to go.

That amazing time in our lives is gone, and will never return. All the beautiful possibilities we had then have been swallowed up in the flow of time.

You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.

Flora went to the cinema every day that week. She saw the same movie each day, and wore the same dress.

I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.

It really is the best feeling in the world when everything that used to make you dizzy with desire becomes so wedged in your life that it changes from something you craved to something you belong in

Hush now, ‘tis time to sleep and dream secrets of long ago.

It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her...

And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade.

A hothouse flower trained to bloom out of season and in the wrong climate. I do not belong.

This is a test. This is only a test. If this was my actual life I'd be famous, rich, and thin.

That's what it means to be a man. You do what you think is right, regardless of who it hurts, and whether it works out, because in the end you have to live with yourself.

Bittersweet: it's what life tastes like. And if you can handle the bitter, the sweet will come later. ~ Klyde, in Piranhas Like S'mores.

As with all young ones, a deeper perception comes clearer with time... Roe'vaash recieved the grace to release the anger and pain he had carried and suffered for so long...

Perhaps friendship doesn't divert sound judgment.

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

Why couldn't she have given him a sultry laugh as she'd seen women do in movies instead of giggling like some enchanted, mindless school girl?

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

It’s a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.

In the end, every person's life is a tough act to follow.

Boys always make things more complicated.

You only go through High School once, but if you go through the way we did, that's enough.

But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.

I’ll be like Esther. Your daughter.”“You ain’t that strong.

I just want to this about that.

What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

It's okay to be happy.

The butterflies have flown away, like my ignorance and youth.

Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.

It was a sacrifice worthy of her and dreams are made to be killed.

If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.

He looked along the line of children, exhibits A to C of his existence and heirs to the twisted throne of his corrupt genetics.

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter)

He was a shadow of the man that once intimidated us out of our home, a shell of a human being, a fragment of a father.