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I would never bite an even number of people.”
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU
I never knew how to refer to my aunt Lauren. When I said Lauren to Sofia, it sounded like I was being snotty. When I said your mother, it sounded like I was being cold. And I could not say your mom, because I never said the word mom if I could help it. Probably because I was snotty and cold.
was
once?
“Da?”
this motherfucker a swede?
“Three twenty-six.”
3:26 MY ASS. that call lasted 1 minute at most. I timed it.
That is how I would kiss you if I loved you.
need to reread books probably
held a pretend phone to his ear. He mouthed _____ me, only I didn’t think the verb was call.
then why the fuck did he hold a phone to his ear ??
Sometimes I took online quizzes to find out if I was a sociopath.
I would never call an even number of times.”
YOU ARE THE WORST PERSON EVER. even hitler liked even numbers probably
“I want a keyboard on my headstone,” Cole
"I am not a rock star I am a pop star," Cole remarked,
“I don’t want to talk to them,” he said. “All they want to talk about is whether I’ll take their virginity or write another song like ‘Villain’ or come play a show in whatever impossibly small place they live in. Did you put sugar in this?”
he already had someone. And my hair looked great from the back.
“That one,” he said, “would be the one I would happily let kill me. Eyes still closed?” “Yes,” I said. “Open your mouth.” I kept him waiting again, while I looked at the lines of his cheeks and his jaw and his eyebrows, all of them so purposeful and dazzling and at home here in this place of purposeful and dazzling things. Then I leaned across the table and kissed his open mouth. It still tasted of caramel. I felt him say Mmmm, the sound vibrating against my lips, and then he pressed his hand against my neck and kissed me back, earnest and certain.
“Do you really want me to be you online?” Cole smiled. His real smile. “I trust you.”
He was too young to drive, but old enough to be able to turn doorknobs.
The boy looked dismissive. “It’s not about the landing. It’s about the flying.”
woah kid. too young for that deep philosophical shit.
Contentment is constancy.
the kid who was too young to drive makes more sense than this.
I don’t really like team sports unless I’ve invented both the team and the sport.
Oklahoma, which is a sad story no matter how you look at it.
especially if you look at the Oklahoma part
I knew just how it felt when your worst fear was that you would be yourself.
Actually I want you
Arkansas
oh wowee we made it big time boys
til
till*, Isabel. educate yourself.
And I thought of how statistically pointless love was and how unsurprising this all was in the relative scheme of things.
Trust you? Does anyone do that? Of all the things I would do that are crazy, Cole, you can be sure that will never be one of them.”
Even when I was happy, I felt like I was always looking for the edges on life. The seams. I was so perfectly born to die.
“We saw where you were staying,” my mother said. “It seems like a nice neighborhood.”
picturing jesse pinkman's mom. idk why
I kept finding out that the monster I’d been fighting was only me.
there was the scratch of a random guitar chord. Guitar? Guitar.
why are you so offended by guitar its stupid guitar is beautiful
You have got to be kidding me.
OH GEE I WONDER WHO MADE THAT HAPPEN
I was so tired of being alone, but I was always alone, even with people around me.
Because all I needed out of the wall was the absolute reminder that 50 percent of all American marriages ended in divorce, and the rest of them were on their way there.
“It’ll get easier,” Paolo said. But I knew that. That was the worst part. The worst part was that eventually you forgot about the people you loved.
“It’s over when I say it’s over.”
- Heisenberg
