All Quotes By Tag: Book
“As I walked inside, she turned around and headed for the end of the bed. Then she paused and turned to face me. She was wearing her Orchard Hill basketball T-shirt and sweatpants and she looked tired, but beautiful.”
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“…Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times… …Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on… Quote on the Title Page of “Love TORN Asunder”
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“I missed you so much,” she breathed.I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly believe this was happening. I was finally getting to touch her. To kiss her. It was all happening. “I missed you, too.”
“There’s something I have to say,” I said seriously, looking her in the eye. She smiled. “Oookay.” She was mocking me-mocking my tone-but I didn’t care. “Okay. Here it is. I love you,” I said. “And I never, ever wanted to hurt you. It’s like, the number one thing I never want to do, but somehow, I keep doing it. And I’m sorry, I just…that’s all I wanted to say all this time. All I was trying to do…with that thing with your dad, not telling you…was not to hurt you. And I’m sorry that I did. Alley stared at me. “And I’m sorry that I did it again. With the Chloe thing. Which was stupid. Like, really, really, stupid. And I-” “Can you just stop, for a second?” Ally said, holding up a hand. “What?” I said. “Can you say the first part again?” she asked, rolling her fingers around for a rewind. I racked my brain. “Um…I love you?” I said. “That’s the part, Cuz I love you, too.”
“Life had sure been simpler when I hadn’t dated.”
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“It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.”
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“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.”
“The danger of prolonged despair is its tendency to cloud the gift of a new beginning that every tomorrow offers. –Anissa’s Redemption”
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“In addition to my new outlook on life, in some absurdly simple way, Anissa gave me several new reasons to live. Above all, I had to see her again and find out what, if anything, would happen between her and me.”
“But I did feel the vertigo of death’s invitation, beckoning me towards the dark waters below. Only a newfound perspective and desire steadied my wavering soul. I came to realize, just in time, that suicide was far too easy – and obscenely cowardly – after someone I knew, not even half my age, had been through so much worse and still marched gloriously on.”
“She was somehow this damaged creature I had fortuitously encountered along my path and now cared about as a result. Granted, I didn’t cause her harm, as I did with Icarus, but I somehow began to feel responsible for her welfare.”
“My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that – much to my surprise- his does as well.”
“But then, as I looked in the mirror, I became fixated on some hairs near my carotid artery that were still there. I pushed the blade deep against my neck to shave them off, and then blood squirted out.”
“A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.”
“The lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the whole thing for many reasons.”