“Amelia, you are quite the challenge.”
“There were two cannons at the hostel gate. One for Romeos, one for Peeping Toms.”
“There are moments in life when a touch can say so much more than words ever could.”
“Hidup nggak mudah buat siapapun. Dan lo nggak perlu selalu pura-pura terlihat bahagia dan baik-baik aja. Sometimes it s okay not to be okay.”
“God. He was an eye-gasm if she ever saw one.”
“That’s the main issue, Ezekiel, I don’t know you and you don’t know me.”
“How southern belle of her.”
“Her mother and memory lapses were BFFs.”
“The problem isn t finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is! (Jamie Sullivan)”
“I would have told you earlier, but as it was your birthday . . . What do you give the man who has everything? I thought I’d give you . . . me.” He puts the keychain down on the bedside table and snuggles in beside me, pulling me into his arms against his chest so that we’re spooning. “It’s perfect. Like you.”
“Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They re fairy tales for grown-ups.”
“I often think that he s the only one of us who s achieved immortality. I don t mean in the sense of fame and I don t mean he won t die someday. But he s living it. I think he is what the conception really means. You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with everyday that passes. . . They change, they deny, they contradict- and they call it growth. At the end there is nothing left, nothing unreveresed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out of an unformed mass. How do they expect a permanence which they never held for a single moment? But Howard- one can imagine him living forever.”
“Kita tidak akan pernah benar-benar berhenti mencintai seseorang. Kita hanya belajar untuk hidup tanpa mereka.”
“we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.”
“This thing between them, this bond—it wasn’t just passion, and it wasn’t wicked. It was love, and it was divine.”
“Give me agony or give me death, I ll take thy heart as eternal breath”
“It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had come close several times until finally an impatient Fate had forced their paths to intersect.”