Typeset Quotes

I still can’t post from Paper Towns. Sigh.
The next post will most likely be all quotes from Breaking Dawn, which I picked up at midnight last night, but am nowhere near finishing (I worked all day!). I will post a spoiler warning though. Here’s what I haven’t posted yet.

After that she spent a lot of time convincing herself that what you saw, even what you felt, had an unreliable relationship to what was actually there. What was actually there was reality, regardless of whether you saw it or how you felt about it.
-Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue, The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“We are trapped in our senses,” her old teacher, Annik, told her once. “They are all we have of the world.”
And so they are the world, Lena remembered thinking then, and many times since.
-Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue, The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

Right now I’m having amnesia and déja vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
-Steven Wright

“I know what it is,” she said. “We aren’t in Bethesda anymore and we aren’t in high school. We aren’t really in our families and we aren’t in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren’t us. If we think they are, then we’re lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren’t any place or any time.”
She thought of their Pants. She pictured them blowing off the laundry line and into the air, floating and soaring until they silently merged into sky and sea.
“That’s the thing. We are everywhere.”
-Carmen, Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue, the Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“Faith is personal, you have to figure it out for yourself.”
-Mr. Raeburn, State of Grace