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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

Bryn Greenwood

Top 10 Best Quotes

“I liked learning things. How numbers worked together to explain the stars. How molecules made the world. All the ugly and wonderful things people had done in the last two thousand years.”

“Most days I was impossible. Like a unicorn.”

“When I reached her, she was a star, pulling me into her orbit”

“Your family is real, but mine isn't? Real people with real feelings, but my family isn't real to you. You think. I'm a character. A story. Those women you talk about. Not real people to you. Stupid women. I'm real. I'm as real as you are. My family is real like your family.”

“You can look up keening in the dictionary, but you don’t know what it means until you hear somebody having their heart ripped out.”

“I love you. I love you all the way.”

“You make people interested in you by keeping secrets, not by passing them out like candy at Halloween.”

“I wanted a fairy tale ending for Wavy, because if she could find happiness, there would be hope for me, too.”

“Feeling dead was better than when my heart hurt. Sometimes I thought it might burn through my ribs while I was asleep, and smolder in the sheets until the whole house caught fire.”

“I liked to play at tragedy, but she drank it out of her baby bottle.”

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Book Keywords:

learning, love-quotes, stars, ugly, love, wonderful, family, real-love, numbers, romance, real, young-adult

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