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The Atlas of Us Quotes
The Atlas of Us
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Kristin Dwyer2,029 ratings, 4.04 average rating, 545 reviews
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The Atlas of Us Quotes
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“Staying busy is a powerful dam for your emotions, and when that’s gone, you’re left with nothing.”
― The Atlas of Us
― The Atlas of Us
“His eyes are on my mouth and I’m waiting for the truth to leave his.
Say it. Say it. Say it.”
― The Atlas of Us
Say it. Say it. Say it.”
― The Atlas of Us
“Essas pessoas me enxergam.
Elas fazem me amar parecer fácil. Isso me dá vontade de permitir que amem”
― The Atlas of Us
Elas fazem me amar parecer fácil. Isso me dá vontade de permitir que amem”
― The Atlas of Us
“Are you trouble?’ I ask. It feels like a question I should define. I should explain. The different kinds of trouble float in the air, and I want to tell him that he doesn't feel like trouble to me. His brows come together and he looks like he’s deciding something. ‘I’m not here by choice. Or. I wasn’t last year. It was court ordered.’ King looks up at me and says, ‘So yeah. I’m trouble.”
― The Atlas of Us
― The Atlas of Us
“King’s eyes find mine and my blood feels electric in my veins.”
― The Atlas of Us
― The Atlas of Us
“Tears collect in my eyes and I let them. I decide that it’s all right to do that in this place. No one out here will know that I miss my dad. That I hear his voice in the current or feel him in the sunlight on my skin.”
― The Atlas of Us
― The Atlas of Us
“Laughing is for people who feel like they have most of the pieces of themselves. Not for girls who can’t remember the last time they heard their dad laugh.”
― The Atlas of Us
― The Atlas of Us
“The rhythm of the trail begins to embed itself into my expectations, and as the days pass each of us come to learn our place in the group.”
― The Atlas of Us
― The Atlas of Us
“I don’t know if we’re telling stories or lying to each other. I can’t decide which would be better. ‘I’ll tell you the truth when you tell me.”
― The Atlas of Us
― The Atlas of Us
“Grief is like that. It slowly stabs at you, burrowing itself inside, until eventually your body tries to get rid of it, and it ends up tearing through you. Destruction. That’s all death does.”
― The Atlas of Us
― The Atlas of Us
“Who you are, what you’ve done, none of that matters here. The nicknames are a blank slate. No past or history or judgement.”
― The Atlas of Us
― The Atlas of Us
“None of us ask though, because those are the things strangers don’t talk about.
Strangers don’t share the truth.”
― The Atlas of Us
Strangers don’t share the truth.”
― The Atlas of Us
