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I had been taught not to argue with adults, anyway.
Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.
It’s Portuguese. Saudade. Do you know that one?” I shook my head. I didn’t know half of the words in my own language. “It’s more . . . there’s no perfect definition. It’s more of an expression of feeling—of terrible sadness. It’s the feeling you get when you realize something you once lost is lost forever, and you can never get it back again.”
We could have stayed together in that comfortable silence for hours, and it still wouldn’t have been enough for me.
“I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say but not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.
That girl was gone forever, and all that was left was a product of the place that had taught her to fear the bright things inside of her heart.
“He’s so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they’re holding in their hand.”
Had this boy really once just been a stranger? Had I really once thought that I’d be able to live a life without him in it?
“I don’t want to lose you.” He made a noise of frustration, his eyes clear and bright as he spoke. “Then why are you the one that keeps letting go?”
“Did you know . . . you make me so happy that sometimes I actually forget to breathe? I’ll be looking at you, and my chest will get so tight . . . and it’s like, the only thought in my head is how much I want to reach over and kiss you.”
“Ruby, give me one reason why we can’t be together, and I’ll give you a hundred why we can.
“I’m a monster, you know. I’m one of the dangerous ones.” “No you aren’t,” he promised. “You’re one of us.”
There are some people like that, you know? The darkest minds tend to hide behind the most unlikely faces.
“’Cause, frankly, the way I see it, you and me? Inevitable.
