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“This is the thing about life I've never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go.”
― Teach Me
― Teach Me
“There is not a name for what I'm feeling. There is no description for it.
To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water.
Whatever this thing is, it shoves you inside itself and you can't measure its boundaries because they go too far and you don't have enough time. Or you move toward the boundaries and they move away.
There has been an earthquake in my life.
Catastrophic, civilization-ending.”
― Teach Me
To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water.
Whatever this thing is, it shoves you inside itself and you can't measure its boundaries because they go too far and you don't have enough time. Or you move toward the boundaries and they move away.
There has been an earthquake in my life.
Catastrophic, civilization-ending.”
― Teach Me
“Why do people need other people so much? Why can't we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?”
― Teach Me
― Teach Me
“I'd make oatmeal cookies."
"Cookies?"
"I would. That's just what I would do."
"Why?"
He lifts one hand from the steering wheel and pinches his chin. "Because the world is changing so fast all the time. There's nothing you can do but just say, 'cool,' and roll with it. But some things can stay the same. Flour is still flour. Vanilla still smells like vanilla. Say a giant fireball is motoring toward us right now from Alha Centauri. Okay, universe. You expect us to run and scream and kill one another? Sorry, we're making oatmeal freaking cookies.”
― Breathe My Name
"Cookies?"
"I would. That's just what I would do."
"Why?"
He lifts one hand from the steering wheel and pinches his chin. "Because the world is changing so fast all the time. There's nothing you can do but just say, 'cool,' and roll with it. But some things can stay the same. Flour is still flour. Vanilla still smells like vanilla. Say a giant fireball is motoring toward us right now from Alha Centauri. Okay, universe. You expect us to run and scream and kill one another? Sorry, we're making oatmeal freaking cookies.”
― Breathe My Name
“Life is a war, and the families are the armies. Even if you win the war, some will never see you plant the flag.”
― Breathe My Name
― Breathe My Name
“He clenches his fist against my back and speaks into my neck. His voice is warm.
I didn't mean to take it this far..
I lift my blurry eyes. That still means you meant to take it.”
― Teach Me
I didn't mean to take it this far..
I lift my blurry eyes. That still means you meant to take it.”
― Teach Me
“There's a deliciousness to my agony that wasn't there before- I know he's not going away. I know it's real.”
― Teach Me
― Teach Me
“Was there ever really a chance for us? What is down in the middle of him, his very center? Does he even have a center, or do you just cut away the layers, away, away, away, until you are left with nothing?”
― Teach Me
― Teach Me
“Everything's a game,' Sagan said. 'When you get down to it. Everything in life is ultimately some kind of strategy. If you have a better strategy than the other guy, he's going down.”
― Throat
― Throat
“Is this what we have to look forward to? The world of adults feels like a universe that has reached the end of its expansion and is inexorably collapsing back in on itself.”
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“A latter-day Go Ask Alice, BEAUTIFUL is raw, gritty, and powerful, an intense ice-pick jab to the heart. A stunning debut and a must-read.”
― Teach Me
― Teach Me
“Welcome to my head. Let's hit the ground running.”
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“He’s kissing me everywhere, squeezing me, running his fingers over places no one else has touched”
― Teach Me
― Teach Me
“This is a start.
This is where I begin to find my way back. Realizing that is Kitty Nation senses something there, something worth touching, something real, then something must be there. And finally, after a time--
After a long, gruesome, ridiculous struggle deep inside a black, desperate, featureless, void--
Absolute zero with a bullet--
I choose Trajectory 1:
Remake myself into something that doesn't burn.”
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This is where I begin to find my way back. Realizing that is Kitty Nation senses something there, something worth touching, something real, then something must be there. And finally, after a time--
After a long, gruesome, ridiculous struggle deep inside a black, desperate, featureless, void--
Absolute zero with a bullet--
I choose Trajectory 1:
Remake myself into something that doesn't burn.”
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“The Door.
To keep from thinking about it, I focus on seven words:
"Don't worry, he's going to be fine."
Those are the words I have to hear.
One word for each day they say it took to create the earth.
Though I know it really took billions of years and swirling through dark matter and hydrogen snow.
But we are waiting God days in the emergency room of this hospital. God hours and God minutes. Whole epochs pass.”
―
To keep from thinking about it, I focus on seven words:
"Don't worry, he's going to be fine."
Those are the words I have to hear.
One word for each day they say it took to create the earth.
Though I know it really took billions of years and swirling through dark matter and hydrogen snow.
But we are waiting God days in the emergency room of this hospital. God hours and God minutes. Whole epochs pass.”
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“Life is a war, and the families are the armies. Even if you win the war, some will never see you plant the flag.”
― Breathe My Name
― Breathe My Name
