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1w2- “At this point she was willing to forgo rational behavior if it would get her where she needed to go.”
1w9- “A monster, that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
2w1- “Instead she settled for letting her focus drift in and out, so that what she got was a melody of people digging into each other’s lives.”
2w3- “It humbles me. But it doesn’t humiliate me.”
3w2- “She wondered if everyone got the same thrill she did from meeting new people, or if it was uniquely enjoyable to her.”
3w4- “I’m sure everything will be fine. Plus, they pretty much just wrote my college essay for me. I’ll talk about learning from the hardships of my rebellious teenage years and I’ll get accepted anywhere I want.”
4w3- “I like red- don’t get me wrong. But I have a deep appreciation for anything that is willing to be totally and utterly itself. If you’re going to be red, then be red, goddammit, from your steering wheel to your hubcaps, be red.”
4w5- “I’ve always felt at home here, in the shadows.”
5w4- “I take them all in. I hear their conversations, witness their intimacies. I never say a word. They are more conscious of the birds, the squirrels, the wind. I do not exist. And yet I exist.”
5w6- “Sometimes I will sit on a bench for hours at a time. Sometimes I will wonder. At every moment, I observe.”
6w5- “Too much. Too fast. Too intense. The glass soul falls to the ground and shatters into a thousand words. The invisible boy becomes visible, and all of a sudden, his emotions blast neon.”
6w7- “Yet here I am, sharp words zinging from my lips like poison darts.”
7w6- “I’m going to steal your idea to look at the world as if it’s always hiding something of value.”
7w8- “The day is all just hours you’re alive for. They can be filled up with anything. Unexpectedness, wildness, maybe a little bit of lawlessness even.”
8w7- “When you don’t have any reason to think of days as weekdays or weekends, you start to realize that all days are pretty much the same and that kind of gives you the freedom to do whatever you want.”
8w9- “‘You surrender.’ She said. ‘For you’re beaten.’”
9w1- “And it’s probably not going to be the last time you’re heartbroken. You can’t go walking into traffic every time it happens.”
9w8- “When she did, the air took on, simultaneously, the feel of might and fragility.”
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