Top 70 Hannah Moskowitz Quotes
#1. Pathetic, huh?" He learned that word
from me.
"Yeah. It's like the opposite of a fish,
right?
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#2. Break a body, grow a better body. The worse you're hurt, the stronger you get.
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#4. Make sure you're not expecting cute. This isn't Looking For Alaska.
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#5. There's so much about girls I don't understand. I don't know how I'm old enough to kiss them but not old enough to talk to them.
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#7. We're totally different people from when we first met, but I still love her and she loves me, after all this time.
And this weekend I'm going to meet her in person.
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#8. I'm happy for the kid and everything, but how the fuck does Lio get a friend before me? I live here.
'I told you I could do it ' Lio IMs me. I want to rip out that smiley's eyes.
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#9. There's something about a boy who isn't allowed to wander off. There's something about a boy in a sky who has limits.
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#13. Sixteen-year-old guys smell like deodorant and fast food. Then you turn seventeen and you get fresh.
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#14. And fuck it, because that was seriously fucking fantastic.
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#15. He has lungs and a heart and he ... he is just telling himself over and over again that he is all fish because that's what you wanted him to be.
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#16. Craig, he says, in that tone that's like, I'm one step away from middle-naming you.
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#17. It's not disgusting. Books are disgusting."
"I like books. I thought you liked books."
"Let's be honest, Rudy, books are pornography for brains.
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#18. I ignore people who need me and latch on to people who don't. I dive into every other world except my own just because I want something more glamorous than my real life. I do destructive shit so a stupid hypocritical fish will like me.
I fall for fish instead of girls.
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#19. Just wanted to let you know I got in all right. And also that my chest hurts as if I MAY BE DYING, because I accidentally left my heart on your kitchen counter. I hate when that happens.
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#20. That which does not kill us makes us stronger," Jesse deadpans.
"Exactly. Exactly."
Self-improvement through adversity... it isn't bullshit. Exhibit A: my little brother. I can see every muscle in his stomach and shoulders.
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#21. Will coos, "Jo."
I pretend he's saying my name. I pretend he's calling me back.
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#22. I think when we sleep, the world belongs to everyone still awake. Which means a shitload of the world belongs to Craig.
~Lio
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#23. If my friends or my girlfriend back home saw who I've turned into, I don't think they'd recognize me. And I think that's okay with me.
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#24. I say, "Good job, buddy," and his face is like I've just fixed the whole world.
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#25. His tragic flaw is that he is a walking tragedy, and his smile makes me feel alive.
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#26. You're absolved," I tell him.
He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me.
So I put it in his language. "You're free.
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#27. Be confident because the odds are in your favor.' He clears his throat, like talking this much hurts him. 'Not because you're a special snowflake.
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#29. I should have touched him. I missed my chance to find out what he was.
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#30. What's love when you're too fucked up to feel it right?
I think it's a weapon.
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#31. You only get so many chances to be destroyed. Got to make the most of them.
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#32. I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard.
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#33. And I know, by Noah's face, that even though he knew it, he didn't believe it, even though we all knew it, we were all holding on, somehow, hoping they'd keep trying, that they could just keep on living and fighting. We trusted them to do that.
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#34. There has to be a way. I didn't die in that cave, and Dylan didn't die when he was two, and Teeth didn't die in the shrimp boat, because there is always a way. And I'm going to find it.
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#35. I want to tell her not to speak, want to say it, but her lips are on mine again and I taste me and I taste her and I don't taste what we're saying and I don't taste Noah. I taste Camus - I owe to such evenings the idea I have of innocence.
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#36. I think once you start going to therapy three times a week, you've made some sort of terrible transition. I think that's the difference between "a little fucked up," in a concerned endearing tone and "fucked up" with raised eyebrows and a slow head nod.
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#37. I hate when people do this. I hate when people hide their cards to feel secret and strong. That's no way of dealing with anything.
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#38. Shit, boy. Look at me. Do they have me right now? Are you tying me up and hitting me and ... whatever? Did you trap me?"
"I ... " I shake my head.
"And do I look free?
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#39. I don't want to die, but I wish waking up every morning didn't feel like such a fuck-you every single time.
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#40. ...It is just not hard to love where I am when where I am is here.
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#41. He'd kill one to save me, but not to save himself. Just like I'd risk Dylan's life for him but not for me. It makes us a little horrible.
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#42. I close my eyes and listen to the ocean.
I'm thinking about sailing, to England or maybe France. The way the wind would feel on my face and the sound of his voice screaming my name through his laughter. The waves would crash like applause. God, I remember when I used to be afraid of the ocean.
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#43. I like books. I thought you liked books."
"Let's be honest, Rudy, books are pornography for brains. All that subtext and bullshit and hidden imagery.
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#44. Am I four years old? All I do is cry and say things are stupid.
I'm stupid.
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#45. I'm bored of this. I want to hear about you. Favorite color. Go."
I laugh. "Green."
"I'm green!"
"Fuck yeah you are."
"Why are you laughing? Isn't this what friends do?"
"Interrogate each other?"
"What? Uh, sure. I don't know what that means. But yes.
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#46. I could totally be a ...
whatever."
"Sailor?"
"On a boat?"
"Yep."
"Yeah." He'll sigh all wistfully. "I could be a sailor. But I'm too busy being a fish.
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#47. When you're grieving, the times you're happy are so much more tragic than the times that you aren't. Because being happy feels fake and it feels temporary and it feels meaningless. And hating being happy is a shitty way to live.
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#48. There's a big difference between hating someone in peace and hating someone during war.
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#49. I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.
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#50. It is so much more beautiful than any polar bears in Alaska. Becaues I am here and he is mine and forever is as long as we want it to be.
The rest, as they say, is history.
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#51. The fish will not blame you. You have to do this. I will not look at you and think you're a bad brother. Nobody will. You have to leave because this time you have to save yourself.
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#52. I don't tell him about how I have to leave my family organism, break out firmly and finally. I don't tell him that I'm a parasite, and I'm ruining them. That my functionality is tearing them to pieces.
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#53. You are no longer responsible. You are no longer allowed to give a shit. Nobody can need you ever again. Go.
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#54. If silence could break bones, I would shatter right now, into pieces of stomachache and blueprints and desperation.
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#55. They hold all their flaws between their bodies and cradle them with each kiss.
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#56. The truth is
loving someone isn't a period
it's a semicolon
and the choice you make is what comes on the other side
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#57. I've always had a fandom. I've always had characters who live in my head and mess with my heart and tell me stories, and I love it.
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#58. I'm a Miami girl. I'm not meant to be in anything under eighty degrees, ever. Shut
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#59. Dad laughs. "You want to take a break? Go play with them?"
The problem is I'm sixteen, almost seventeen, and I don't want to play with them as much as I want to want to play with them. Maybe this feeling is what Noah's been running from.
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#60. How's everything going, Jonah? This question is enough to piss me off. I hate counselors ... I have Naomi. I don't need this crap.
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#61. Without Melinda, you'd have no Camus."
I exhale. "I know." I know it to my fucking bones.
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#62. It's not just like that. I can't just swim away."
"Why not?"
"I'm afraid I'll drown." He looks up and gives the world's smallest smile. He takes a deep breath with those lungs. "I'm afraid I'll drown.
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#63. I think this is the part where we stop pretending we're not going to see each other again.
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#65. I wish we would all just fall apart so I wouldn't have to listen to the downfall happen, so slowly, so painfully.
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#67. They scoot away from each other as soon as I open the door, like they're afraid that their cuddling will bruise my eyes.
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#68. Don't ever let anyone tell you that college is for smart people. College eats smart people alive.
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#70. I just want to talk to her and I want her to talk to me, and I want her to light up when she sees me, and
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