Tess Callahan Quotes

#1. I'm not saying that you think about it all the time. It just leaves you different than it found you.

Tess Callahan

#2. You need to start doing what's uncomfortable for you, April. Because your idea of what feels right took a left turn somewhere.

Tess Callahan

#3. He was so close she could almost hear the movement of his thoughts, the role of the tide; she had slipped inside his skin.

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#4. This is what I think. Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it's a fucked-up way, like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it's a trap.

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#5. Because we're all rainbow-colored inside, each of us a different arrangement, of course. The kiss just makes all the colors more concentrated, so intense they can be hard to look at. Or feel, rather. Like a Mediterranean sunset.

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#6. It hurts not because she is a failure, but because he finally sees so.

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#7. All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and voila, the rest of your life you're green.

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#8. Infatuation burns itself out,' she says. 'Friendship mixed with old chemistry
that can last a lifetime.

Tess Callahan