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You’re always telling me I only ever do things because they will make good TV, or say things because I know they’ll make good lyrics later, or do things because I like the way I look doing them. You say it like I have a choice.
Leon held up his phone so that I could see the screen. He had just purchased “Spacebar” by NARKOTIKA (feat. Magdalene). He seemed happier than when I’d first met him, back when he was Larry.
I’m trying to save his life before it’s too late. Come with me, Leon. We shall walk away from this car, you and I. We shall find fro-yo and make the world better.
“I can’t change,” he replied. It crushed him.
Things that you could stick a needle in without it getting angry.
That’s seven years in dog years or L.A. time.
all of us kissable as a plane crash.
The other monsters weren’t good at this because they gave a damn.
Because she looked on purpose.
Or had been. Or was going to be. I couldn’t tell the difference.
lived in breathless fear of failure, time passing, and her mother falling out of love with her.
remove pieces of my identity every time I returned to it, insidiously replacing them with wall-to-wall white carpet and blond hardwood floors.
She was a finely tuned instrument that hummed in emotional resonance with whomever she was standing closest to.
She was a very pretty vulture who reanimated corpses for web TV,
foolish
I'm starting to realize that Stiefvater's plots are less than stellar at times. THIS is not the sort of misguided romcom plot I'd expect of her.
She’d been here long enough that all of her feelings had been replaced with high-end linoleum.
What I wanted was: I wanted.
He’d become Buddhist around the same time he’d become Southern.
I’d always wondered how Cole got anything practical done, how he’d come so far, and now I saw. People were no longer people, they were just parts of the plan, in the goal. And parts could get moved around without thought or emotion.
He was dead in a hole, dead in a wolf’s body.
Even though I like this book, it feels very removed from the first three. And while that could work (and mostly does), lines like this highlight the major difference in tone.
If you told it nothing, nothing was what you got.
I need to acknowledge and remember this.
twelve
The time margin keeps getting bigger...
doctor.
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Because of her brother?
“And be my — what is it called? Naked person. No. Muse.
those.
With this much shotgunning-on-the-wall, you /have/ to do that.
set.
Since he keeps her in the end, is this supposed to be a bit of unreliable narrator?
just polite introductory things like asking them if they had ever gone skydiving or petted a hairless dog.
Virtual
I really love this subplot. Really, REALLY love it.
“Do you say anything without thinking whether or not it sounds good?” “I don’t even know why I’d bother opening my mouth otherwise.”
Cole got along great with a mirror.
and I knew that every one of her emotions looked like anger from the outside.
“But I don’t think that’s what your job is.”
four or nine or twelve.
Mustang.
Has to be symbolic of something at this point.
What?
Victor or Cole in the past.
Correction: it's mostly "hyperbolic" Isabel.
“There. Take everything that was mine.”
look like
We've established she has an innocent face; does she want him to actually fail in earnest?
I had spent so many afternoons doing homework at Yuzu, just being alone there where nobody knew me or what my facial expression normally looked like, and now my time there had gone from present to past in just a few minutes.
intentionally being no one’s.
“I’m trying and it doesn’t matter to anyone.
I knew just how it felt when your worst fear was that you would be yourself.
nine or fifteen or twenty-two
Magdalene
Rihanna of this world?
To hear someone else riffing off your tune, to throw a bit of an improvisation back at them, to come back again and again to those same crashing four chords that, for two glorious weeks, America had sung over and over until they were dreaming them.
entire
without complaint or brilliance.
that sometimes the truth wasn’t the most useful thing to add to a conversation.
want to just have you but I struggled to translate. “I’ve just recorded my first real track since I died and it is going to eat every dance floor in the country and it’s not even the best one I’ve written so far and someone is paying me to go into the studio and record the others and I can’t wait,
I’d never left that house in Minnesota.
place
Bad romcom plot again...
