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"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."
"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."
"No one loves us here, let's go to Mars."
"I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland."
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"It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering."
"It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be."
"Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."
"I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good."
"He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them."
"She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere."
"Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one."
"Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you."
"You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place."
"Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand."
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