“The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.”
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Alexandra Elle
“Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness: an act of possession that instantly gives way to nothing. It reminded me that there was a world outside this house: a world of vastness and unimaginable beauty; a world that for now, remained out of my reach. That memory had repeatedly returned to me over the years. It's as if the misery that surrounded that brief moment of freedom made it burn even brighter: a tiny light surrounded by darkness.” ― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient
“Stop!” His voice rings out sharply, hard as a slap. He releases me and I stumble backward. “Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that—what we felt, what it meant—that’s done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.”“Alex!”He has started to turn away; now he whirls around. The moon lights him stark white and furious, a camera image, two-dimensional, gripped by the flash. “I don’t love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never loved you.”The air goes. Everything goes. “I don’t believe you.” I’m crying so hard, I can hardly speak. He takes one step toward me. And now I don’t recognize him at all. He has transformed entirely, turned into a stranger. “It was a lie. Okay? It was all a lie. Craziness, like they always said. Just forget about it. Forget it ever happened.” ― Lauren Oliver, Requiem
“People always talk about falling in love but no one ever talks about falling out of it.” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“Because you go somewhere else when you read. I want to go there with you” ― Alex light, The Upside of Falling
“Having a Coke with Youis even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonneor being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelonapartly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastianpartly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurtpartly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birchespartly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuaryit is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as stillas solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of itin the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forthbetween each other like a tree breathing through its spectaclesand the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paintyou suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did themI lookat you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the worldexcept possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frickwhich thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first timeand the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurismjust as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase orat a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow meand what good does all the research of the Impressionists do themwhen they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sankor for that matter Marino Marini when he didn’t pick the rider as carefullyas the horseit seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experiencewhich is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it.” ― Alex Flinn, Beastly
“I mean, there’s a reason all books end right after the couple gets together. No one wants to keep reading long enough to see the happily ever after turn into an unhappily ever after. Right?” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“He looks toward the ocean, dark purple with the last rays of light. "My mom says we're all connected--people and plants and animals. We all know one another on the inside. It's what's on the outside that distracts. Our clothes, our words, our actions. Shark attacks. Gunshots. We spend our lives trying to find other people. Sometimes we get confused and turned around by the distractions." He smiles at me. "But we didn't.” ― Jenn Bennett, Alex, Approximately
“People leave, Brett. It's not our fault got not giving them a reason to stay. It's their fault for not finding one. You know?” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“Could love really make the world stop? Why did it make every female character feel alive? Wasn’t she alive before she met him?” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“Willow's eyes flew to his, startled. They stared at each other. Her foot felt small under his hand; he rubbed it lightly with his thumb, feeling the silky heat of her skin, his pulse hammering through his veins. He felt like he was falling. All he could see was her.She looked closed to tears. "Alex--"Leaning across the corner of the table, he cradled her face in his hands and kissed her. Her lips were soft and warm. With a sob, Willow returned the kiss, throwing her arms around his neck. He opened his mouth, tasting her; felt her hair tumble down around his hands. Happiness burst through him, exploding through his chest. Willow. Oh, God. Willow.” ― L.A. Weatherly, Angel
“He plucked the book from my hands, inspected the cover. “I recognize this one. Haven’t you read this, like, a hundred times?”“Twenty, actually,” I said, snatching it back. “Today marks the twenty-first time.”He grinned. Shook his head.“What?” I asked.“Nothing. Nothing at all,” he said, jerking his chin toward the book on my legs. “Read to me.”"Why?”“Because you go somewhere else when you read. I want to go there with you.”We sat there and I read aloud, my back to Brett’s chest. He pulled me a little closer, held me a little tighter. And this time, we escaped together.” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“There was no way that I wanted him to stop touching me, even for a few hours. My pulse thudded as I glanced across at the camp bed. I cleared my throat. "Wel...is there a reason we can't both take the bed? The sleeping bags zip together, don't they?" Alex stared at me without moving. "Would that be OK?" I asked, feeling nervous suddenly.The lantern light made his eyes look darker, his hair almost black. He started to smile, a grin spreading across his face. "Yes, that would be extremely OK.” ― L.A. Weatherly, Angel
“It was like, if love couldn’t exist in reality, at least it was alive in fiction.” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada...I think we should rethink yourdad’s rule.”Alex glanced down at me and smiled – the first real smile I’d seen on his face in a long time. “You knowwhat? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around meand we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.” ― L.A. Weatherly, Angel Fire
“His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
“Reading helps me. It’s like I’m in another world when I read. And all the problems in my life don’t exist anymore. It helps.” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“I love you," Amir told her.Samirah stumbled backwards like she'd been hit in the face with a giant eagle egg. Alex propped her up."I ... yes," Sam squeaked. "Also. Too."Amir nodded. He turned and got into his car. A moment later, his tail-lights disappeared down Flagship Way.Samirah smacked her own forehead. "Also? Too? I am such an idiot."Alex patted her arm. "I thought you were quite eloquent. Come on sister. Your neon-yellow warship awaits.” ― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead
“It feels like the world is going to explode when I kiss you,” I whispered.“Then let it explode,” she said.” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness: an act of possession that instantly gives way to nothing. It reminded me that there was a world outside this house: a world of vastness and unimaginable beauty; a world that for now, remained out of my reach. That memory had repeatedly returned to me over the years. It's as if the misery that surrounded that brief moment of freedom made it burn even brighter: a tiny light surrounded by darkness.” ― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient
“Stop!” His voice rings out sharply, hard as a slap. He releases me and I stumble backward. “Alex is dead, do you hear me? All of that—what we felt, what it meant—that’s done now, okay? Buried. Blown away.”“Alex!”He has started to turn away; now he whirls around. The moon lights him stark white and furious, a camera image, two-dimensional, gripped by the flash. “I don’t love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never loved you.”The air goes. Everything goes. “I don’t believe you.” I’m crying so hard, I can hardly speak. He takes one step toward me. And now I don’t recognize him at all. He has transformed entirely, turned into a stranger. “It was a lie. Okay? It was all a lie. Craziness, like they always said. Just forget about it. Forget it ever happened.” ― Lauren Oliver, Requiem
“People always talk about falling in love but no one ever talks about falling out of it.” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“Because you go somewhere else when you read. I want to go there with you” ― Alex light, The Upside of Falling
“Having a Coke with Youis even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonneor being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelonapartly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastianpartly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurtpartly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birchespartly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuaryit is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as stillas solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of itin the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forthbetween each other like a tree breathing through its spectaclesand the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paintyou suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did themI lookat you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the worldexcept possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frickwhich thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first timeand the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurismjust as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase orat a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow meand what good does all the research of the Impressionists do themwhen they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sankor for that matter Marino Marini when he didn’t pick the rider as carefullyas the horseit seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experiencewhich is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it.” ― Alex Flinn, Beastly
“I mean, there’s a reason all books end right after the couple gets together. No one wants to keep reading long enough to see the happily ever after turn into an unhappily ever after. Right?” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“He looks toward the ocean, dark purple with the last rays of light. "My mom says we're all connected--people and plants and animals. We all know one another on the inside. It's what's on the outside that distracts. Our clothes, our words, our actions. Shark attacks. Gunshots. We spend our lives trying to find other people. Sometimes we get confused and turned around by the distractions." He smiles at me. "But we didn't.” ― Jenn Bennett, Alex, Approximately
“People leave, Brett. It's not our fault got not giving them a reason to stay. It's their fault for not finding one. You know?” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“Could love really make the world stop? Why did it make every female character feel alive? Wasn’t she alive before she met him?” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“Willow's eyes flew to his, startled. They stared at each other. Her foot felt small under his hand; he rubbed it lightly with his thumb, feeling the silky heat of her skin, his pulse hammering through his veins. He felt like he was falling. All he could see was her.She looked closed to tears. "Alex--"Leaning across the corner of the table, he cradled her face in his hands and kissed her. Her lips were soft and warm. With a sob, Willow returned the kiss, throwing her arms around his neck. He opened his mouth, tasting her; felt her hair tumble down around his hands. Happiness burst through him, exploding through his chest. Willow. Oh, God. Willow.” ― L.A. Weatherly, Angel
“He plucked the book from my hands, inspected the cover. “I recognize this one. Haven’t you read this, like, a hundred times?”“Twenty, actually,” I said, snatching it back. “Today marks the twenty-first time.”He grinned. Shook his head.“What?” I asked.“Nothing. Nothing at all,” he said, jerking his chin toward the book on my legs. “Read to me.”"Why?”“Because you go somewhere else when you read. I want to go there with you.”We sat there and I read aloud, my back to Brett’s chest. He pulled me a little closer, held me a little tighter. And this time, we escaped together.” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“There was no way that I wanted him to stop touching me, even for a few hours. My pulse thudded as I glanced across at the camp bed. I cleared my throat. "Wel...is there a reason we can't both take the bed? The sleeping bags zip together, don't they?" Alex stared at me without moving. "Would that be OK?" I asked, feeling nervous suddenly.The lantern light made his eyes look darker, his hair almost black. He started to smile, a grin spreading across his face. "Yes, that would be extremely OK.” ― L.A. Weatherly, Angel
“It was like, if love couldn’t exist in reality, at least it was alive in fiction.” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“After a long time, I cleared my throat. “So anyway, when we get to Nevada...I think we should rethink yourdad’s rule.”Alex glanced down at me and smiled – the first real smile I’d seen on his face in a long time. “You knowwhat? It’s already been rethought and completely ditched,” he said. And he wrapped his arms around meand we stood looking up at the mountains, with the rising rays of the sun lighting them from the east.” ― L.A. Weatherly, Angel Fire
“His eyes are blazing with light, more light than all the lights in every city in the whole world, more light than we could ever invent if we had ten thousand billion years.” ― Lauren Oliver, Delirium
“Reading helps me. It’s like I’m in another world when I read. And all the problems in my life don’t exist anymore. It helps.” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
“I love you," Amir told her.Samirah stumbled backwards like she'd been hit in the face with a giant eagle egg. Alex propped her up."I ... yes," Sam squeaked. "Also. Too."Amir nodded. He turned and got into his car. A moment later, his tail-lights disappeared down Flagship Way.Samirah smacked her own forehead. "Also? Too? I am such an idiot."Alex patted her arm. "I thought you were quite eloquent. Come on sister. Your neon-yellow warship awaits.” ― Rick Riordan, The Ship of the Dead
“It feels like the world is going to explode when I kiss you,” I whispered.“Then let it explode,” she said.” ― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling
