“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow – that, in short, we are all going.”
“When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.”
“If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.”
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March 3, 2013 at 5:55 pm
scorpiosity
I just recently read this. I go through spurts where all I want to read is YA, for some reason. Like most readers (I’m sure) I felt like I could have been one of those students. I guess that’s what makes this book so good – you can actually put yourself there and feel every moment of high school over.