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Good things: Loved loved loved the characters. Gabe and Dante are PANTS at communicating, which I found endearing because boys are dumb sometimes. Also talking about your feelings is hard. Talking about your feelings when you've been forced to hide t ...more "
“What did you really think was going to happen?” Ilya shrugged. “Maybe you would think he was nice. Hot. Not a rival hockey player.” He was terrified that one day Shane would realize he could be with someone who wasn’t a dark secret. That
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“Dr. Eleven: What was it like for you, at the end?
Captain Lonagan: It was exactly like waking up from a dream.”
― Station Eleven
Captain Lonagan: It was exactly like waking up from a dream.”
― Station Eleven
“Survival is insufficient.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“All three caravans of the Traveling Symphony are labeled as such, THE TRAVELING SYMPHONY lettered in white on both sides, but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“To know a person’s bad habits along with their good ones? To see them at their worst and at their best? To fight and play with them through all the seasons of this life? And to still wake up every morning happy to see their face? This is love.”
― Archangel's Light
― Archangel's Light
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