One
Sarah Crossan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Here we are. And we are living. Isn't it amazing? How we manage to be at all.”
“Normal is the Holy Grail and only those without it know its value.”
“I am alive and I am alone in a land of so much space.”
“Plato claimed that we were all joined to someone else once, we were humans with four arms and four legs, and a head of two faces, but we were so powerful we threatened to topple the Gods. So they split us from our sole mates down the middle, and doomed us to live forever without our counterparts”
“What am I supposed to do? I don't know so I say the words I would want to hear. 'Go, if you have to.”
“But when I read, I am completely alone. I have privacy from her and from everyone.”
“Are you kidding? You are normal. And normal is good. Normal is my goal,' I tell him.”
“Isn't it funny how something so abstract can speak to us?”
“Around here normal is a slur,' he says, 'Deep down everyone wants to be a star and normal is the road to nothingness.”
“Death What does death feel like? Sleeping? Being in a dark and silent dream? Maybe that would be OK— if nothingness is all it is. But I’m kidding myself. It must be worse than that or people wouldn’t so furiously avoid it. Maybe death is white and glaring. Maybe it is a lack of sleep, a pure awakening— a deafening reality that is truly unbearable. But no one will ever know how it feels until he arrives there. All I know now is that it looks like a brass-h andled coffin being lowered into the ground, and I’ve absolutely no interest in getting into one of those things.”
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