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“It was so easy to disown what you couldn’t recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling”

“You punched him by accident.”

“…It’s not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.”

“It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin.”

“I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.”

“It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.”

“Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.”

“It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.”

“Relationships evolve, just like people do. Just because you know someone doesn't mean you know everything about them.”

“Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.”

“But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.”

“What you do in your dreams is never your choice. But it made me happy anyway.”

“I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.”

“The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.”

“You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!”

“It hadn't even occured to me that somebody would believe mine.”

“Just wait a second. We can't leave it like this." But this too, wasn't true. Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.”

“And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.”

“At every wedding someone stays home.”

“Only a real asshole takes liberties with someone else's car stereo. That's serious.”

“She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.”

“It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.”

“Clearly, sharing something could take you a long way, or at least to a different place than you'd planned. Like a friendship or a family, or even jsut alone on a curb on a Saturday, trying to get your bearings as best you can.”

“This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.”

“What were you two talking about?" she whispered as Wes pulls the door shut.
Nothing," I said. "Running."
You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.”

“He was very quiet for a moment. Where are you?”

“Energy, he said, handing me my burrito.”

“Man," he said. "You are, like, so impatient."”

“And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice.”