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“Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

Source: The First Bad Man

“I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“I could not make a move without making love.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.”

“She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”

Source: The First Bad Man

“I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter air that makes women doubt everything, and I breathed it in, as I had always done.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.”

Source: It Chooses You

“We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“… we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“We don't really believe in mowing the lawn; we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life - where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”

Variant: All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.
Source: It Chooses You

“I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.”

Source: It Chooses You

“And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her?
I dumped him.
Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough.
I promise you that wasn't it.
Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough.
Four hundred.
Not enough.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“I was going to die and it was taking forever.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You