Dear Edward Quotes
"So much could be solved if we simply held hands with each other more often."
"The main reason he agreed to move to L.A. is because the movie studio is renting them a house with a yard."
"Making music, and drawing attention, with each step."
"Fatherhood is, for him, one jolt of terror after another."
"Bruce processes the world—and decides what’s true—based on numbers, and statistically no one has ever survived a plane crash by using an inflatable slide."
"They are simply a fairy tale intended to give passengers a false sense of control."
"He has no use for fairy tales, but most people seem to like them."
"I’m going to California so my boyfriend can propose. He’s going to propose."
"Traumatic brain injury is invisible to most of our measuring tools."
"Imagine I grabbed you by the shoulders and shook you as hard as I could."
"Their nephew is lying in front of them, broken, and he is their responsibility."
"When I saw what the clouds looked like from the sky, I wanted to get out of the plane and dance on them."
"Pure math is the stuff of dreams, strands of gossamer built to be thrown to smarter men in the future."
"There are twenty-five kids in a class, at least, which means the learning is inefficient."
"It’s like the brain doesn’t take note; it’s not paying attention."
"The thing is, I never thought I’d have a normal life on land, and get married, until I met Linda."
"If violence is a stone thrown into a still pond, Benjamin has become adept at spotting the ripples, and there are none here."
"He felt like an internal wall had exploded into pebbles and rocks of every size. Each rock was a desire; he was a beach of itchy, terrible needs."
"I’m alone on this plane with a goddamn nurse."
"The air on the plane is clean, and not worthy of complaint, but still, Veronica can taste the effort in it."
"When you squat, you tax your entire system. You want big legs? Squat. You want big arms? You squat."
"Everything ends," she says. "That’s nothing to be sad about. What matters is what starts in that moment."
"We can all afford to get a bit stronger, can’t we?"
"I’m not going to go in that bathroom again, that’s for sure."
"I am freezing cold. And I am no longer young. And I am alone in the sky, headed to where I do not know."
"It’s kind of cool to think that having sex is so great that you don’t mind doing it in a bathroom."
"I always get hopeless in the middle. When you still have hours in front of you and hours behind you. You feel stuck."
"The structure seems to shift and wheeze above his bed."
"The noises are completely different from the noises in Shay’s room."
"He never lets himself sit or lie down, though, in case he falls asleep and freezes."
"That’s when he and Lacey stopped sleeping together, so that timing makes sense."
"I can relate. I spent one November in Seattle protesting the WTO."
"A week earlier, a student had brought cupcakes to French class."
"The crash has already been my second chance."
"They think you’re lucky. Some of them are jealous."
"It makes no difference if I sit in English or social studies."
"Educate yourself. Education has always saved me, Edward."
"Sisters, which means they love each other straight to the bone."
"It’s only by personalizing the writing that she can endure it."
"What you need to realize, sweet boy, is that the thicket you’re trying to walk through isn’t cerebral in nature."
"Nobody chose you for anything. Which means, truly, that you can do anything."
"Dying on your couch watching TV by yourself is a tragedy."
"Dying while doing something you love with every part of your body is magic."