Melanie > Books: buddy-reads‎ (334)

“I dreamt myths larger than my girl body could hold.”

“I dreamt myths larger than my girl body could hold.”

“Her conviction, born of long days and longer nights, was that if the world

“Her conviction, born of long days and longer nights, was that if the world contained magic at all, then it could not also contain their war.”

“It was so much easier to hate a man than a system: vast, inhuman, bloodstained.”

“One day love became not an offering of safety, but a reminder of everything cruel and dangerous in the world.”

“One day love became not an offering of safety, but a reminder of everything cruel and dangerous in the world.”

“It was the first time I thought about how strange it was that the thing I spent all my time doing belonged to a culture that wasn't mine. But my p

“It was the first time I thought about how strange it was that the thing I spent all my time doing belonged to a culture that wasn't mine. But my parents were the ones who taught me piano. It is just as much a part of my blood as it is hers.”

“But maybe you should question the people who taught you this version of God. Because it's not doing you any favors.”

“...maybe I could make a cobbler that pleased God. And maybe that would please my mother.”

“That should have been the end of it. But when do mediocre men ever go away quietly?”

“Outside, the rain was repeating us, saying my words to the pavement: please, please.”

“She was drawn to these books—girls with powers, girls who were monstrous, girls who had the potential to be terrible and violent things.”

“You can feel the internal prayer the woman recites, hoping he will come.”

“If I drown in this ocean tell my mother I’m still angry
If I drown in this ocean tell my body it’s okay to rest.”

“Being the worse girl means, at least, I'll be remembered”

“If she wanted either of us to be that kind of daughter, she should have been that kind of mother.”

“I always thought evil hung in the sky above our heads, the black whorl of it, a portal to darkness. That’s where storms came from—when the evil got too great and God had to release some of it down on us. We had to pay a little bit for it.”

“They ask me where I have been, and I tell them travelling. They understand that. They have grown through the dark themselves.”

“We die; we leave ghosts of ourselves behind. Voices on answering machines, bodies on video, fragments of souls in handwriting.”

“I would rather lose this entire war than live without you, and if that means I have to prove myself over and over, then I'll do it. You gave me yo

“I would rather lose this entire war than live without you, and if that means I have to prove myself over and over, then I'll do it. You gave me your heart, and I'm keeping it.”

“Your lola told stories about the country she had come from; your father told you the stories of himself, his destined for greatness. They a

“Your lola told stories about the country she had come from; your father told you the stories of himself, his destined for greatness. They are private stories told on stages behind thick curtains, seen only by the teller, and no one else.”

“No matter how much distance lies between us.”

“No matter how much distance lies between us.”

“If you would've just waited for me to tell you I felt the same, if you would've never come here, I'd be yours. We'd be ours.”

“They were like beacons in an endless abyss of grief.”

“Whenever someone talks about the "good old days," they forget to mention who it was "good" for.”

“Mrs. Choi thought Guested parties were white people nonsense or the work of the devil. Sometimes both.”

“There is no God here tonight. Only me, and I am vengeful.”

“Terrifying Bob won't even mess with the Jollibee, which makes me sad on his behalf.”

“You can love something so hard that you hate it at the same time. Each shortcoming hurts more because you care. The city and my body are like that.”

“The smell of sampaguita fills the air. It's coming from you, the magic that's always been you, that you've finally given yourself the ability to unlock.”

“Magic wasn't real, after all. There were better, more mundane ways to explain things.”

“I know that bone-deep loneliness that comes with being abandoned and the fear that it'll keep happening no matter what you do.”

“Halloween. One way or another, he was going to get rid of this poltergeist for good.”

“Today, my outside resembles the way I feel within. ”

“And...how do we find a sacrifice worthy of his Clownliness?”

“It’s a leap of faith to love people and let yourself be loved. It’s closing your eyes, stepping off a ledge into nothing, and trusting that you’ll

“It’s a leap of faith to love people and let yourself be loved. It’s closing your eyes, stepping off a ledge into nothing, and trusting that you’ll fly rather than fall.”

“Watching it was like watching a potion get made, where you could see the sparkle of magic or the ether or whatever it was pouring into the code itself, like honey from an open wound.”

“She doesn’t want to be an anxiety-ridden mouse who’s afraid of the dark and doesn’t like to be alone.”

“The world is doable when she is near me.”

“The world is doable when she is near me.”