Rubbernecker
Belinda Bauer
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of the first could be detected, and where the catalyst had been vaporized by the sheer shock of the new.”
“The coma ward was boring yet difficult. Like golf.”
“Everybody else possessed the key to popularity and happiness, and his clumsy attempts to find his own key always ended with other children looking at him funny, or calling him names.”
“You're different, you know." "Only different from you," he said. "Not different from me.”
“There are worse things than dying." "Really?" said Meg. "Of course," said the tech. "Living badly.”
“Sweet little thing says she still wants to marry him. Breaks your heart: She sighed and sounded sincere, so Tracy nodded in a way she hoped denoted that she, too, was a little bit heartbroken — even though she thought that if her (hypothetical) boyfriend were in a coma for more than a few weeks, she’d probably just cut her losses and move on, not stick around to watch him shit in his pants for the next fifty years.”
“The accident had been just that - the unlucky culmination of million tiny moments that had fallen into place - or out of it - on that bright spring afternoon. He understood that sometimes things happened that nobody could prepare for; that what was done was done and that there was no going back. - Pg. 406”
“That thing that changes between here and there. Between life and death. I can’t feel it; I want to see it. I want to know what it is.”
“On another night – a warmer night; or if the fire had not gone out; or if the cat had been sitting on her lap – habit alone might have been enough to keep her going. But this night was cold and this night was dark, and the cat was outside killing small things.”
“Love is never bad, wherever you find it. - Pg. 55”
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Book Keywords:
aspergers, gpoy, autism, death, love, shock, life, life-lessons, personality, inspirational, social-phobia, big-bang, social-awkwardness
