“Hating the cool kids takes an awful lot of energy, and I'd given up on it a long time ago.”
“Princess." He smiled up at me, but it was weak. "If i'd known that this is what it would take to get you to hold me, I would've collapsed a long time ago.”
“All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.”
“There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.”
“Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one;all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time”
“Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience. ”