Nobody in Particular Quotes

“It's not a crushing sadness I feel. I'm not sure I even have the ability to catch fire like that anymore, for better or worse. Rather, it simply feels as though there's far less of me than there used to be. And I was never all that solid to begin with. If souls were corporeal, I suspect mine would look rather a lot like honeycomb.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Nobody in Particular

“I may only get one life, but if I had the choice, any choice in the matter at all, I would spend the rest of it kissing her- every wretched second I have left- just so I would never have to face breaking apart for the last time, knowing that eventually even the memory of her taste will be lost to me.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Nobody in Particular

“We were barely even together. Like a cherry blossom, we'd bloomed, and dazzled, and died, all in the span of weeks. Although trees don't truly die once their leaves fall, do they? They simply lie dormant. As, I suppose, did we.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Nobody in Particular

“I slowly rise to my feet, and look down at him. “I believe you think you do,” I tell him. “Or, at least, I believe you’ve convinced yourself you do. But your eyes are empty.” I clench my jaw as he stares back at me. “And once you see it, you can’t unsee it,” I finish, before I leave him without waiting for a response.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Nobody in Particular

“I hadn’t quite realized how much my happiness had come to correlate with the amount of time spent in her orbit.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Nobody in Particular

“Even after all this time, it still surprises me when I stop and take in just how beautiful she is. And not just physically. It strikes me, looking at her now, that I’d do anything to protect this girl. Anything she needs, I’ll do it. “I don’t think I’d be okay without you,” I say.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Nobody in Particular

“That’s her whole thing, and it’s always going to be. As long as she’s the princess, or the queen, who she is as a person comes second.” It’s interesting, to hear her put it like that. Whenever Rose and I have talked about her responsibilities, it’s been that I can’t matter as much as her duties. Or that her friends can’t matter, or that a potential career path can’t matter. It’s the first time that I’ve really understood that she can’t matter, either.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Nobody in Particular

“It aches, this new absence. And I can't shake the feeling that if I could close the space between us - a hundred feet that might as well be a chasm - the aching would vanish. But I can't, can I? In order to respect her boundary, I have to pay the price of my own comfort. She comes first, because she must.

Still. It doesn't stop me from wanting and wishing and hoping, right down to my honeycombed soul, that she will close the space for me.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Nobody in Particular

“It's hard not to sink into a false sense of ease when you're speaking to someone who looks at you like they know you to your bones.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Nobody in Particular

“If I'm perfect, it's ignored. If I'm not, it's condemned. Not a lot seems to be in my power at the moment.”
― Sophie Gonzales, Nobody in Particular