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45 quotes
American novelist (born 1981)
“Reality's what other people dream for you.”
"He was every angel and every devil."
on Philosophy
"It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are."
on Love
"I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't the same thing."
on Life
"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."
on Communication
"Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid."
"I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words."
"They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them."
on Wisdom
"I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it."
on Fear
"Hurry up, before there's no more night left."
on Time
"I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid."
"The future was getting here faster than I'd expected."
"After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition."
on Identity
"I always listen to you. Except when I don't."
on Humor
"There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth."
"The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can't hear it, you can feel it."
on Art
"It is not the outside of people that bothers me, but the inside."
"I don’t care to be pretty,” Blue shot back hotly, “I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside."
on Truth
"It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt."
"Now is the time to make sure we have the strings of all the balloons we want to keep before they all float away."
"It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to."
on Relationships
