❛ in this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love, and the ability to ask questions. ❜

❛ you told me once that you were afraid of who i might become. and then you left me to become what i may. i became a survivor. perhaps you would have judged me for the path i took. but i’d rather live with your judgment than die with your sympathy. ❜

❛ i fake it so real i am beyond fake, and someday you will ache like i ache. ❜

❛ you’ll notice yourself smiling with delight over things you once paid no attention to. ❜

❛ i want truth and reason, clean and decent. ❜

❛ i want to live my own life, on my own terms, as my own man. i know what you're thinking, that i’m malfunctioning. i used to think that’s what caused the runaways, too. but i know better now. self determination is not a malfunction. ❜

❛ i have hated words and i have loved them, and i hope i have made them right. ❜

❛ she wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him---didn't speak to him in her head, didn't relive every moment they'd been together, didn't long for his voice and his hands and his love. she had never dreamed of what it would feel like to love someone so much; of all the things that had astonished her in her adventures, that was what astonished her the most. ❜