Top 56 Adam Silvera Quotes
#1. This is how Thomas lives his life, one misfired dream after the other. That journey may stretch for a lifetime, but even if he doesn't discover that spark until he's an old man, Thomas will die with wrinkles he earned and a smile on his face.
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#2. Then there's the kind of zombie I've become now: the one who has lost everything - his brain, his heart, his light, his direction. He wanders the world, bumping into this, tripping over that, but keeps going and going. That is life after death.
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#3. Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it'll be okay eventually.
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#4. I'm sorry, but please don't be mad at me for reliving all of it. History is all you left me.
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#5. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you get through the messier tunnels of growing up. But the pain can only help you find happiness if you can remember it.
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#6. I realize I'm crying a little, too. I remember. Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.
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#7. I feel like a rock being skipped through the ocean - pain, relief, pain again, relief again, eventually destined to sink.
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#8. Every universe I've created lately, your face keeps popping up in it.
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#9. There's got to be some scientific study somewhere that proves your boyfriend's sweater will keep you warmer and cure you of any illnesses a lot faster, than some Pottery Barn blanket.
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#10. While we can't always engineer our own happy endings, we can learn how to be more happy than not with the cards we've been dealt.
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#12. Imagine if we could glow to attract a mate instead of spraying on cologne that chokes everyone in a fifty-foot radius,
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#13. One night we argued for a solid hour over who would win in a duel between Lord Voldemort and Darth Vader. I'm surprised we're still friends.
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#14. I'm blown away by how happy you make me. Thank you for being there for me when I'm stupid enough to think I'd rather be alone.
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#15. You don't get to keep ignoring the past because you don't like it.
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#16. I look up, and Jackson's eyes find mine. For a second, it almost feels like we're about to race into the hole to join you. Being buried alive has got to be better than whatever comes next.
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#17. When someone makes you happy, it's pretty impossible to cage the excitement.
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#19. If you looked inside me, I bet you'd find two different hearts beating for two different people, like the sun and the moon up at the same time, a terrible eclipse I'm the only witness to.
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#20. From the shapes cast by the green paper lantern, you would never know that there were two boys sitting closely to one another trying to find themselves. You would only see shadows hugging, indiscriminate.
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#21. I was in love and love died and the pain you've left isn't pain I can see myself having the strength to face again.
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#22. There's nothing wrong with someone saving my life, I've realized, especially when I can't trust myself to get the job done right. People need people. That's that.
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#23. History is nothing. It can be recycled or thrown away completely. It isn't this sacred treasure chest I mistook it to be. We were something, but history isn't enough to keep something alive forever.
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#24. She once promised me that nothing bad would ever happen, and then I grew up and everything went wrong, but I believe her this time because the worst thing that can happen is that nothing will happen at all.
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#25. Before. Before is all I will have left, and Before destroyed me before.
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#26. But there is the happiness he promised, too. He loves me without being in love with me and that's all I can ask of him. I don't even need to hear him say it to believe it.
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#27. I'm so happy you were my first, Theo, and you were worth all the heartache.
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#28. You didn't have to take my side.'
I kind of, sort of, definitely always will.
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#29. Time doesn't heal all wounds. We both know that's bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.
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#30. People are complicated puzzles, always trying to piece together a complete picture, but sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes we're left unfinished. Sometimes that's for the best. Some pieces can't be forced into a puzzle, or at least they shouldn't be, because they won't make sense.
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#32. Life felt like it was going to be too long. I wanted out.
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#33. We can't ever be together," he finished. "But I always want to know you, even if we're in the same room and you're just saying hi to me over and over again, I'll be perfectly happy. I'll always want to be sitting across from you.
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#34. Remember when we had trouble beating the last few levels of Zelda? We pooled our allowances and bought the walk-through guide to help us out.' He softly adds, 'You should've asked for help before cheating.
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#35. The world should stop lying to kids because they've always been brutally honest with us.
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#36. This is the moment of the end. This is where we give up hope on reversing time, where we abandon finding a cure to death, where we live in this Theo-less universe, where we say goodbye. But I can't. It is goodbye for most, but not for me. Never me.
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#37. I'd give in to the grief but make sure I wasn't loud enough to draw attention from those who think words will make me feel better.
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#38. I wonder if Batman would save Robin over his girlfriend of the week. (The Dark Knight gets around, man.)
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#39. Alternate universe idea: Theo and I are living together in a huge house overflowing with hats because I bought him a new one every day to get him to stay.
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#40. You move on, you have to - but you don't write someone out.
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#41. She pulls away - and then I see why: she's holding out her palm as a landing place for a firefly. It's easy to forget it's there when it's not glowing, until all of a sudden it comes back and surprises you; it reminds you of grief.
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#42. The boy with no direction taught me something unforgettable: happiness comes again if you let it.
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#44. But I need him as badly as I should be pushing him away. It's too weird a mix of ugly and hopeful.
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#45. I want to be so happy that bad memories aren't following me around like unwanted shadows.
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#46. But when I come back down, I remember something very crucial: Fuck, I have no idea how to have sex.
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#48. Everything I did for him I did for me, too, because it made me happy to see him happy. That's not obsession, you dickhead, it's love." He's
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#49. But hey, if there's one bright side to your dying, it's that you aren't around to tell me things I don't like hearing. I'm sorry. That was a dickhead thing to say. I need a condom for my mouth.
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#50. I'll never understand how time can make a moment feel as close as yesterday and as far as years.
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#51. I have to push ahead with the people who don't take the easy way out, who love me enough to stay alive even whe life sucks
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#52. I would do my damn best to be more happy than not.
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#53. In that moment, I wish my existence were as simple as being set on fire and exploding in the sky.
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#54. Even if I only got to spend that first drive to the planetarium with Theo, he broke me in a way everyone should be lucky to be cracked open at least once. I had the privilege of being destroyed by him until we found a better, real me inside of the person I was pretending to be.
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#55. It's okay how some stories leave off without an ending. Life doesn't always deliver the one you would expect.
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#56. We all make mistakes... but it's also a step in the right direction. If nothing else it's a step away from the wrong one.
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