R.J. Anderson Quotes

I'd finally reached the end of myself, all my self-reliance and denial and pride unraveling into nothingness, leaving only a blank Alison-shaped space behind. It was finished. I was done.But just as I felt myself dissolving on the tide of my own self-condemnation, the dark waves receded, and I floated into a celestial calm.I saw the whole universe laid out before me, a vast shining machine of indescribable beauty and complexity. Its design was too intricate for me to understand, and I knew I could never begin to grasp more than the smallest idea of its purpose. But I sensed that every part of it, from quark to quasar, was unique and - in some mysterious way - signifi

This is fantastically squalid," said Milo. "We may never get out of here alive.

I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.

What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?

I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either.

I hate it when people talk like friendship is less than other kinds of - as though it's some kind of runner-up prize for people who can't have sex.

I might not be ready to pour out my feelings to the world, but I’d had enough of trying to ignore them.

But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.