Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You
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"I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try."
"I see... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes."
"He deserves better than this. But "deserves" doesn't have a lot to do with falling in love."
"Rachmaninoff. The 18th Variation of a Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini."
"That's right", she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. "You weren't with me that time I walked in on them doing the deed. Seriously Freudian horror.""You saw your parents at the best," Mom murmurs, before Dad sweeps her into another kiss. "Go ahead," Josie calls. "Mate in public. Tonight we won't even mind. You deserve to break a few decency laws."
"We can't begin to learn until we admit how much we don't know."
"Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within."
"My hate is stronger than the dimensions, stronger than memory, stronger than time. My hate is now the truest part of who I am."
"You always apologize for things you don't know. You should stop."
"Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you'll get out again."
"Don't you think you ought to at least think about getting yourself to your ultimate? Because, trust me, nobody else is going to get you there."
"The universe is in fact a multiverse."
"Theo's already on his way. Paul might bee too, but communications have been down so long, I don't know.""Heading out here with a storm like this coming in? That's madness." Dad sighs. "Then again, jumping through dimensions to chase a dead man is madness too. I had long suspected their lunacy but this confirmation is nonetheless disquieting.""See? Everything's going to be fine."
"I fell in love with his unchanging soul."