“God. He was an eye-gasm if she ever saw one.”
“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.”
“That’s the main issue, Ezekiel, I don’t know you and you don’t know me.”
“Se non sono un po’ dannati, non ci piacciono.”
“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.”
“Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.”
“Does he lay with you in the grass? Does he stare up at the stars, speaking of his dreams, wishing he could roll over and kiss you and run his fingers along the breasts that tease him beneath the shirt--the shirt he knows he will carry home with him and smell and, God help him, sleep in, just so that he could be close to you?”
“She’s drunk dialing contractors ” Chloe said to Tara. “Someone should stop her.”