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‘What a wild thing, to still be learning new things about your own body, nearly thirty years after you were born with it.’

‘meeting Ben was the most thoroughly decent thing Alexei had ever done’

‘he tried to stare back at Ben with meaning, with assurance. Because he knew now, what it looked like when Ben was scared. And he’d promised to keep Ben safe.’

‘Because it hadn’t just been fun for Alexei. It had been everything.’

“What if I can never grow up?”

‘Someday I hope I can repay him, and give him what he deserves in return for all he’s done for me.’

“I wish someone would have had the foresight to glean him as a child. The world would be better off.”

Curie is too real

the ability to lose interest in a book 40pages from the end is just evil…
I’m saving this for tomorrow.

“Oh, wow.”
What?
“I didn’t know you could look sad.”

"You think I can't handle a nasty ole gangsta with jewely teeth and a gun?"
"I know you can."
"Because I'm strong as anything," Peaches said. "Can't nobody or nothing get the best of me."

‘irritated by his own willingness to upset himself’

‘This is what he’d been afraid of all along. The way his art had begun to misbehave’