Lia Riley Quotes

#1. I'm a high-functioning basket case.

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#2. Bran's lips part. I glimpse his tongue and a slightly crooked incisor. These little details, I can't stop gathering them like a kid seeking fistfuls of dandelions.

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#3. I glance at the red-stenciled words crossing my chest - HOLDEN CAULFIELD IS MY HOMEBOY.

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#4. You're the ketchup to my fries."

"Here we say tomato sauce and chips."

"Doesn't have quite the same ring.

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#5. I've ripped so many shameful secrets from my belly, held them out, covered in toxic grime for his inspection, but there's no reciprocity.

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#6. Pretending to be a normal, functioning member of society is exhausting stuff.

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#7. Breathing's difficult if you overthink the action, like staring at the word the for too long. Grows unnatural, bizarrely wrong.

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#8. Maybe I'm turned upside down, but at last I've landed right side up.

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#9. She's the fire in my frozen heart. The hello in my long good-bye. The best goddamn thing that ever happened to my shithouse life.

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#10. My characters blather away to each other. I simply turn up and listen.

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#11. There are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments.

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#12. People want to be with the sunflowers, those who rise and face the sky. Who prefers fungus, moss, things that grow in the world's dank and shadowed places?

No one.

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#13. Bad is the new good - you've got my permission to stick that on one of your t-shirts.

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#14. If you burn away my bones, my love for him would remain, tattooed in the air.

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#15. Somewhere hell was freezing over and Satan was figure skating.

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#16. I remember something Bran said when we were hiking in Tasmania, about how people believe they see the same river but the water is always different. I am that river.

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#17. If I never get lost, I'll never be found.

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#18. here are beautiful places inside him, where laughter comes easy, where sweet words appear like surprises. But I also know his bitter valleys. The dark caves where he hides his fears, his hurts, and his disillusionments. And he knows mine.

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#19. Bran and I are two loose ends who found a way to tie ourselves together.

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#20. Looks like I'm enduring a two-hour car trip with the human equivalent of a splinter - a sexy splinter.

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