I'm dying. I am dying. I have finally achieved what I set out to do. My heart is splitting open and I breathe in but no air gets into my lungs.
Courtney SummersAnd that I miss her, that I need her, and this kind of missing, this kind of need, the kind of emptiness it leaves behind is worse than waking up one day and finding the whole world has collapsed in on itself, that I was over longer before it was.
Courtney SummersYou think I ever stopped wanting to die after the motel?" I ask. "You think a feeling like that just goes away?
Courtney SummersShe always said I'd die without her and she left anyway."
"But you didn't." he says.
"I did," I say. "I'm just waiting for the rest of me to catch up.
Stichwörter: inspirational creepy
Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?
Courtney SummersStichwörter: friendship relationships
If life was fair, you wouldn't be here.
Courtney SummersStichwörter: life
I think you're crazy good at this survival stuff, Cary."
His shoulders sag. He gives me a small, relieved smile and we start walking again, his step a little lighter than it was before. It feels strange to have that kind of power over someone.
"I mean, you're crazy good at it for a stoner who couldn't seem to get his shit together academically at all," I add.
Stichwörter: humor funny drugs survival apocalypse
I will see my father in every anger.
Courtney SummersStichwörter: violence anger fathers
I thought it could be something, I mean, eventually." Harrison finally looks at us. "My life I thought-but I mean... it's nothing."
"Don't cry" Grace says. "You have a lot of time."
"No, I don't."
"Yeah, you do."
"No.-"
"Yeah! Yeah, you do. It's okay. Look-"
She does something that is so amazingly selfless and also gross. She tilts Harrison's face up and gives him a sweet kiss on the lips and it lasts long enough for him to taste her back, to move his mouth against hers.
Harrison stares at her dumbfounded but he's stopped crying
She is so nice.
Stichwörter: life kindness love kiss sweet first-kiss
Sometimes you catch something specific like the screams and cries of people trying to hold on to each other before they're swallowed into other, bigger noises.
This is what it sound like when the world ends.
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