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“What colour are your eyes? Olly (O): blue Madeline (M): Be more specific please O: jesus. girls. ocean blue M: Atlantic or Pacific O: atlantic. What colour are yours? M: Chocolate brown. O: More specific please M: 75% cacao…
"There's more to life than being alive.” -Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
“Beware the Queen of Hearts. She'll have your head.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
“My heart is too bruised and I want to keep the pain as a reminder. I don't want sunlight on it. I don't want it to heal. Because if it does, I might be tempted to use it again.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
“I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
“You can't predict the future. It turns out that you can't predict the past either. Time moves in both directions - forward and backward - and what happens here and now changes them both.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
“Sometimes you do things for the right reasons and sometimes for the wrong ones and sometimes it’s impossible to tell the difference.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
“Sometimes I reread my favorite books from back to front. I start with the last chapter and read backward until I get to the beginning. When you read this way, characters go from hope to despair, from self-knowledge to doubt. In love…
“Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.” ― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
"What would I see in the mirror if I were a normal girl? Would I think that I was too fat or too thin? Would I dislike my hips, my waist, my face? Would I have body-image issues? As it stands, my only issue is that I would gladly trade…
- "Love opens you up to the world." - "I was happy before I met him. But I'm alive now and those are not the same thing" - "I loved you before I knew you." - "I don't know the answer to this question. The only thing I know for sure is that…
“Will I encounter turbulence? Yes. Into all lives a little turbulence must fall.” “In the beginning there was nothing and then there was everything.” “The Void – a universe that can wink into existence can wink out again.”
" Not pointless," she says, and looks at me seriously. "Just because you can't experience everything doesn't mean you shouldn't experience anything..." (Carla to Madeline)
it's soothing to see an entire world at once-to see the pieces and know how it all fits together. Page 296
We watch the way the water pulls back and turns over and beats against the sand, trying to wear the earth away. And even though it doesn't succeed, it pulls back and pounds the shore again and again, as if there were no last time and there…
There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me. Page 196
I was happy before I met him. But I'm alive now, and those are not the same thing. Page 181
Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it. Page 141
Wanting just leads to more wanting. There's no end to desire. Page 83
Because of you I've survived this long and gotten a chance to know my small part of the world. But it's not enough. It's not your fault. It's this impossible life. I'm not doing this just because of Olly. Or maybe I am. I don't know. I…