The Edge of Everything (The Edge of Everything, #1)

by Jeff Giles

“Zoe, I beseech you—” “No. There will be no beseeching.”

No beseeching

“It’s a horrible story,” she said. “Perhaps telling it will take away some of its power,” he said.

It really does

Jonah asked what “pungent” meant. Zoe spoke up and said, “They like puns,” which seemed to satisfy him.

I’m marking this down in my vocabulary

“I told you true, did I not?” said X. “You told me true,” said Zoe.

He told you true

But she taught me to be quick and strong and hard—just as your mother has taught you.”

She sure as shit did - you go mama!!

At the last possible moment, she turned her lips from his and kissed the bruises beneath his eyes, one after the other.

GOD I LOVE THEM

He lifted her off the snow when he saw she was standing in her socks.

Why am I crying??

He stared at himself again in the window. Now he looked like a wild creature wearing a purple shirt.

The best kind of wild creature

Hells no! LMNO! N? Nuts, Zoe. NUTS!

But with you guys—with you girls—everything is always connected to everything else, so you start talking about one feeling and that leads to another feeling, which leads to another feeling.”

He's not wrong

Her instincts have been invaluable, as has her unflappable personality. I myself have been known to get kinda flapped.

I would say she’s a great multitasker, but I think everything she does is part of the same task: to fully live.