Gayle Forman, Where She Went
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"You dumb-ass," I crooned, kissing her on the forehead. "You don't share me. You own me."
"We stand there for a moment, staring at each other, savoring it. And then all at once, we slam together. Mia's legs are off the ground, wrapped around my waist, her hands dipping in my hair, my hands tangled in hers. And our lips. There isn't enough skin, enough spit, enough time, for the lost years that our lips are trying to make up for as they find each other. We kiss. The electric current switches to high. The lights throughout all of Brooklyn must be surging."
"But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body."
"She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me."
"Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony."
"After that, I became kind of fascinated by her and by what I guessed was her ability to hear music in the silence. Back then, I'd wanted to be able to do that, too. So I took to watching her play, and though I told myself the reason for my attention was because she was as dedicated a musician as I was and that she was cute, the truth was that I also wanted to understand what she heard in the silence."
"We were all forged in the crucible."
"I'm surrounded by people and feel alone"
"I'm not sure if the question's rhetorical or if she thinks I have a clue to her metaphysical mystery. And I'm in no state to answer either way because I'm crying. I don't realize it till I taste the sale against my lips. I can't remember the last time I've cried but, once I accept the mortification of sniveling like a baby, the floodgates open and I'm sobbing now, in front of Mia. In front of the whole damn world."
"How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?"
"My chips are all cashed out. There's nothing to lose. Or maybe I've already lost it and found it, and whatever else there might be to lose..."
"It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam"
"Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing."
"She looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. “Because I hated you.”The wind, the noise, it all just goes quiet for a second, and I’m left with a dull ringing in my ear, like after a show, like after a heart monitor goes to flatline.“Hated me? W"
"A journey of 1,000 miles starts with just 10 digits."
"A journey of a thousand miles starts with just ten digits."
"Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.”“Really? Was that how you quit me?” And just like that, without thinking, without saying it in my head first, without arguing with myself for days, it’s out there.“So,” she says, as if speaking to an audience under the bridge. “He finally says it."
"even though I think that Mia and I have enough secrets between the two of us at this point"
"For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you."
"I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once understood it, it dissipated. -Mia"
"Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain."
"Pictures can be pretty deceptive."
"I'll be your mess, you be mineThat was the deal that we had signed"