I have four main takeaways from my Chemistry test today. First, the symbol on the periodic table for oxygen looks like the number of interesting things that happen in my life on a regular basis. The symbol for sodium, Na, represents my
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“Jack, however, appeared to me as a victorious cry. He crackled like Tesla’s fire. He was a million mirror shards turned inward, he was a rootless tree following the sun. Jack was the most glorious creature I had ever seen, so flawed and yet so hopeful, even if he denied it.”
― Before We Disappear
― Before We Disappear

“If he touched Julian’s neck, he would know what Julian felt like. If he knew what Julian felt like, Icarus was afraid he wouldn’t forget it.”
― Icarus
― Icarus

“I was kissing the sound of applause, the smell of a new fire on a frigid winter morning, the warmth of the summer sun. We became vines entwined about one another for a season, we were the sun and moon dancing in the same blue sky.”
― Before We Disappear
― Before We Disappear

“Celestina’s arm tightened around the back of his head and he nosed deeper into the curve of her neck, falling back asleep. He had never been this warm in his life, had never been held like this—held at all. It felt like his bones were wrapped in a quilt made of sunlight.”
― Icarus
― Icarus

“I watched from the between as colors pulsed from Jack’s chest, traveled through his arms to his hands, and flowed into and then from the violin. Jack wasn’t simply playing music, he was creating it from his dreams and his heart, from his soul, and he was giving it to me. I caught the colors and wrapped them about myself like a cocoon, unsure what I would emerge as later, but I left room within so that when Jack’s song ended, he could join me inside.”
― Before We Disappear
― Before We Disappear
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