“Dont panic, i thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. You mean you can feel happy or sad or desire. A barely-there smile.”

What was up with class today? It was watered-down porn. He practically had you and patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the big deed.

You’re a psychopath.” “i prefer creative.

Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, id say im ready for that.” nora :d (p.375)

If i’d wanted you dead five minutes ago, you’d have died five minutes ago.

All this time i’ve hated myself for it. I thought i’d given it up for nothing. But if i hadn’t fallen, i wouldn’t have met you.

If i were thinking straight, i’d take you home right now.

They say that when you’re about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it’s twice as painful, because you’re reliving two lives that traveled one road together.

Listen, patch, i dont want to be rude, but sure you do. Well, you started it! Lovely. Very mature.

When i’m wasted, i can almost forget who i am,” he said, his smile fading slightly. “i know i’m still there, but only barely. It’s a good place to be.” he tipped back the thermos, eyes on the dark sea straight ahead

If you can’t feel, why did you kiss me?” patch traced a finger along my collarbone, then headed south stopping at my heart. I felt it pounding through my skin. “because i feel it here, in my heart,” he said quietly.

Your past wouldnt frighten me, i said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. Im guessing id be more appalled than anything.

You should shower,” i said. “right now.” “i smell that bad?” (patch) actually, he smelled that good.

There’s nothing special about losing your virginity over a toilet.

Chase him down and stall for time. I need two more minutes. Chase him down? How? The neon has a flat. With your own two feet! You mean exercise?

Call me patch. I mean it. Call me.

I already know my size. I don’t need reminding.

Little by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

My Maine mentors had long ago taught me to make home brew. I owned a rifle, and I’d already built a log cabin. The rest should be easy. I thought I’d give it a shot.

As a director you already have a script, you have actors… you have collaborators when you’re a director.

Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.

You are already broke and don’t even know it.

If you avoid or delay screening and care and you have an issue that may be precancerous, by the time you get into screening and care you’re there because it has become acute and you already have a progressed disease.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

She already has a car. A ford. Thats like toyotas worst enemy.