R.A. Nelson Quotes

#1. You have to believe in God to believe in trees.

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#2. Was there ever really a chance for us? What is down in the middle of him, his very center? Does he even have a center, or do you just cut away the layers, away, away, away, until you are left with nothing?

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#3. He clenches his fist against my back and speaks into my neck. His voice is warm.
I didn't mean to take it this far..
I lift my blurry eyes. That still means you meant to take it.

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#4. My head is totally gone; there is nothing left but my heart.

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#5. A latter-day Go Ask Alice, BEAUTIFUL is raw, gritty, and powerful, an intense ice-pick jab to the heart. A stunning debut and a must-read.

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#6. Something inside my chest breaks loose and falls. It never stops falling.

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#7. He's kissing me everywhere, squeezing me, running his fingers over places no one else has touched

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#8. Is this what we have to look forward to? The world of adults feels like a universe that has reached the end of its expansion and is inexorably collapsing back in on itself.

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#9. Why do people need other people so much? Why can't we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?

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#10. Life is a war, and the families are the armies. Even if you win the war, some will never see you plant the flag.

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#11. His voice is a chain pulling me back to Earth.

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#12. There's a deliciousness to my agony that wasn't there before- I know he's not going away. I know it's real.

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#13. This is the thing about life I've never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go.

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#14. Everything's a game,' Sagan said. 'When you get down to it. Everything in life is ultimately some kind of strategy. If you have a better strategy than the other guy, he's going down.

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#15. To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water.

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