Marly's Ghost
David Levithan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah”
“It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.”
“Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.”
“I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.”
“Love was to blame for this. Because when love ends, the cold is what you're left with. It was all I needed to feel.”
“It’s been said of me that I know how to love well, if any person alive can possess such knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us. It is all such a blessing—in the beginning, and the end, and the during.”
“I'd been hurt, yes—but I'd never meant to become hurtful. I didn't want to close down anyone but myself.”
“You must ask yourself this: Will you decide when love's going to work and when it isn't? You have been pronouncing too much and feeling too little.”
“You expect death to bring some new form of punctuation, but there it is: one small gasp. Period.”
“When the heart stops, you die. Love is everywhere that life is, and if there is no love for life, you die. Giving up on love is the same thing as giving up on life itself.”
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death, love, beginning, youth, punctuation, life, laughter, end, blessing, heart
