RandomReader

[brookensever]

We’d said we’d keep in touch. But touch is not something you can do from a distance. Touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it’s gone, it’s gone. We should have said we’d keep in words, because they are all we can string between us—words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen. But they cause more complications than clarity. On the phone, there are always voices in his background. On the screen, there are always the sentences saying he has to go.

How They Met, and Other Stories

[brookensever]

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

[brookensever]

A computer once beat me at chess but it was no match for me at kickboxing.

Emo Philips

[brookensever]

But ask yourself this: Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

For One More Day

[brookensever]

I don’t know where that strength went, I don’t remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it.

The Girl on the Train

[brookensever]

There was nothing in life harder or more important than agreeing every morning to stay the course, to go back to your forgotten self of so many years ago, and to make the same decision.

[brookensever]

I don’t know where that strength went, I don’t remember losing it. I think that over time it got chipped away, bit by bit, by life, by the living of it

The Girl on the Train

[brookensever]

But isn’t that the way it is with memory? Give it enough time and it will become worn down and covered in a patina of self-serving omissions.

The Returned

[brookensever]

Almost nothing at all is ever about sex, unless you never grow up, that is. It’s about love, and, maybe, not having it.

Winger

[brookensever]

Look, the one thing I like about getting married is that you get to stand up in front of everyone you care about and state, for the record, that you believe in the best case scenario. It terrifies me. But that's why the outfits are so nice.

What if

[brookensever]

If the end of your story is a happy one, what does it matter how it began?

Reign

[brookensever]

As Zoey turns to face me, I realize that life is made up of a series of moments, each one a journey to the end.

Before I Die

[brookensever]

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.  

—The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

[brookensever]

He is nothing to look at, and yet I can’t stop looking at him. There is something beautiful in how his face is made, how all the tiny flaws blend together into something more perfect than perfection could ever be.

As I Wake

[brookensever]

She didn’t look at me and I didn’t look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

A Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn

[brookensever]

Just once, I’d love to be heartbroken because someone loved me and left me, instead of heartbroken because I never got on that train at all.

Waiting on You by Kristan Higgins

[brookensever]

Poetry is jut so emo,” he said “Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.

Paper Towns