Loved this book enough the first time to now experience the audio fabulousness (complete with singing!) and collect a few choice cuts this time. [owg=Green; wg=Levithan]owg: "You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot."
wg: “...because Isaac has become the one the songs are about.”
owg: "i know it sucks, but in a way, it’s good....love and truth being tied together, i mean. they make each other possible, you know?
owg: “She kisses like a sweet devouring, and I don’t know where to touch her because I want all of her."
wg: "when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost. the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed."
owg: [discussing Schrödinger's cat with Jane] "It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box. That the unobserved is both there and not...I chose the closed box."
Jane: "They eventually figured out that keeping the box closed doesn't actually keep the cat alive and dead...keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe."
owg: "It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else."
wg: "i just want to be myself and i wanna be with someone who's just himself, that's all. i want to see through all the performance and all the pretending and get right to the truth."
wg: "this is why we call people 'exes' i guess because the paths they cross in the middle end up separating at the end. it's too easy to see an ex/x as a crossout--it's not. because there is no way to cross out something like that. the ex/x is a diagram of two paths."
owg: "Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love?"
Tiny: "Love is the most common miracle. Love is always a miracle...everywhere...every time."
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Possessions: Unclean Getaway (bk. 1) by Ray Fawkes, 2010.