Status Updates From The Last Time We Say Goodbye

"You and me, Ash, we don't fit. You're like the sun and I'm like a big black cloud. I'd always be darkening your skies"-Chapter 28 Page 307

"This is going to sound trite, I suppose, but you never know when it's going to be the last time. That you hug someone. That you kiss. That you say goodbye"-Chapter 26 Page 286

"He wasn't the best looking baby, my brother. I looked at him. He looked at me. Then he went crossed eyed. 'He's not cute' is what I famously said, clearly disappointed. 'I thought he was going to be cute' "-Chapter 19 Page 212

"They're bad, and it feels like they're getting worse, more graphic in nature, but I don't want to stop having them. In some morbid way, I like having them. Because at least then I get to see Ty. I get to talk to him, sometimes. At least, when I'm there, when Ty is dying in whatever way he's dying, I'm with him. I'm hanging onto him. I'm asking him not to go."- Chapter 14 Page 155

"The room goes dark and blurry, like an impressionist painting, colors but no distinct lines" -Chapter 9 page 98

“ “i miss you, i want to say. Its on the tip of my tongue, but i think, if i call attention to the fact that this is a dream, then I’ll wake up”-chapter 9 page 94

"Sometimes I miss being kissed. It seems like such a small thing, a trivial thing, my lips meeting his, but sometimes, like tonight, I lie in bed unsleeping and stare up at the ceiling and remember what it felt like"-Chapter 8 Page 82

"I never liked Antonia. He was the kind of guy that always wanted to make out with Beaker, but never seemed to want to talk to her. He was unworthy"- Chapter 7 Page 77

" 'I, for instance, have been married to the same man for thirty-two years. And, in all that time, I haven't felt "in love" with him every day, not in the way love is described in romantic comedies and romance novels, but I have loved him. Love is a choice I've made. A verb. And that, because I believe in it, because I act on it, is real. Love is a very real thing to me' " -Chapter 7 Page 73

" ' I find that love is a concept much like bravery, Miss Riggs.' "-Chapter 7 Page 73

" 'In my experience, love doesn't bring happiness and stability. But believing in love can cause a substantial amount of harm' " -Chapter 7 page 73