

“Don't go fighting against the Spring.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View

“For when people leave our company in our time we are never certain of seeing them again, or seeing them unaltered.”
― Anil's Ghost
― Anil's Ghost

“But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.”
― Birdsong
― Birdsong

“Maybe it didn’t seem like a big deal to you Zach. But now, I hope you understand. My world was collapsing. I needed those notes. I needed any hope those notes might have offered. And you? You took that hope away. You decided I didn’t deserve to have it. ”
― Thirteen Reasons Why
― Thirteen Reasons Why

“She wasn’t too big, heroic, what they call Junoesque. It was that there was just too much of what she was for any one human female package to contain, and hold: too much of white, too much of female, too much of maybe just glory, I don’t know: so that at first sight of her you felt a kind of shock of gratitude just for being alive and being male at the same instance with her in space and time, and then in the next second and forever after a kind of despair because you knew there would never be enough of any one male to match and hold and deserve her; grief forever after because forever after nothing less would ever do. ”
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