The way you look before you leap
The strange illusions that you keep
You don't know
But I'm noticing"
pg. 17
"You haven't missed me for one fucking minute. You have never for one single second in your entire pathetic life missed me. You might have missed fucking with my head, and you might have missed the satisfaction you so clearly got from demolishing me, but those are your emotions you're missing, not mine. I'm afraid I can't help you."
pg. 40
"I'm on a date with a good guy and I've given him more mixed signals than a dyslexic Morse code operator."
pg. 57
"I should have been more grateful for him, because no guy besides Tal would ever put up with me."
pg. 57
"I know you probably think I'm a horrid bitch from the planet Schizophrenia, but I'm honestly not trying to mess with your head. I'm just messing with my own head and I seem to have dragged you along for the ride. I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. because when a guys a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you. Since trust isn't an option, you don't have to get all freaked out about having to trust him.
... but what I'm trying to say is that if you did I would be sorry, and not just sorry in an I-apologize-I'm-so-sorry way but sorry in a sad-that-something-that could've-happened-didn't way."
pg. 63
"I discovered out of nowhere and then discovered I wanted and once I tasted it, I yearned for it. but I know I must accept defeat because this whole night was an accident, clearly."
pg 89
"Fuck her for being such a fantastic kisser."
pg.95
"Fuck me for not knowing what I want."
pg 95
"Fuck this wondering. Fuck this trying and trying. Fuck this belief that two people can become one ideal. Fuck this helplessness. Fuck this waiting for something to happen that probably won't ever happen."
pg. 97
"When someone breaks up with you, their beauty - which you took such satisfaction in, suddenly becomes unfair."
pg. 99
"Because not only can you not let go, but you don't ever fucking realize that the thing you're holding on to isn't even there."
pg 100
"Okay, I know one thing I want, something that I can have, I want to conclusively end the Tal regression spiral. So maybe I lost out on Nick. But at least now I know. There are Nicks out there."
pg. 109
"This is why The Beatles got it. Other bands, its about sex. Or pain. Or some fantasy. But The Beatles, they knew what they were doing. You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?
... Thats what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide.
... And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearable exciting moments of hand holding."
pg. 118
"A true friend's work is never done."
pg. 127
-originally from "Heathers"
"The way you're singing in your sleep.
The way you look before you leap.
The strange illusions that you keep.
You don't know.
But I'm noticing.
The way your touch turns in arcs.
The way you slide in the dark.
The beating of my open heart.
You don't know.
But I'm noticing."
pg. 137
"Basically its says the world has been broken into pieces. All this chaos, all this discord. And our job - everyone's job- is to try to put the pieces back together. To makes things whole again."
pg. 143
"Maybe it isn't that were suppose to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces...what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking."
pg. 145
"If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever able to just be."
pg. 149
"Conversation with you is like a drug."
pg. 152
"It's over when you decide it's over, when you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us."
pg. 170
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