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1. "It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
2. "As you head into adulthood, June, you may occasionally encounter oversize exotic beverages of an alcoholic nature. I felt it was my duty to acquaint you with these potentially hazardous drinks." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
3. "You will. I promise. There's a lockup. Each apartment has one. Like a big storage cage. Come with me." An image of me being locked in a cage in some kind of creepy cellar came into my head. I didn't even know Toby. Not really. And he said himself he was jealous of me. Maybe he would lock me in this basement and nobody in the world would ever guess where I was. Toby's shoulders drooped, and he cocked his head to one side and said, "Please," in the most pathetic voice ever. Then he perked back up. "Look, truly, June. You won't be sorry." I thought about it for a few seconds and came to the conclusion that a real psycho wouldn't have mentioned the cage. A real psycho would have lured me down there by telling me there was a puppy or something." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
4. "Going into the woods alone is the best way to pretend you're in another time. It's a thing you can only do alone. If there's somebody else with you, it's too easy to remember where you really are." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
5. "I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
6. "I stared out the window the whole way, because it was raining, which is how I like the city best. It looks like it's been polished up. All the streets shine and lights from everywhere reflect off the black. It's like the whole place has been dipped in sugar syrup. Like the city is some kind of big candy apple." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
7. "Black holes aren't an Earth Science topic, but Mr. Zerbiak is like that. One minute Adam Bell was asking a question about a meteoroid he found in his backyard, and the next Mr. Zerbiak was saying that he was "going a little off topic here, but..." and of course everyone was suddnely all interested. If teachers pretended that everything they said was "off topic", we'd have a whole school full of straight-A students." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
8. "Hayir, hayir. Yalnizca dünyanin en mutsuz insanlari sonsuza dek yasamak ister, çünkü hayatlari boyunca istedikleri hiçbir seyi yapamadiklarini düsünürler. Yeterince zamanlari olmadigini, hayattan paylarina düseni alamadiklarini hissederler." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
9. "I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clandestine were alive, it would be a pale little girl with hair the color of fall leaves and a dress as white as the moon." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
10. "But you don't know what it was like. It was just the two of us that afternoon, and then . . . and then it was just me." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
11. "My mother said it was like a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn't rewind it while you were listening to it. And so you'd forget and fall into the music and listen and then, without you even knowing it, the tape would suddenly end." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
12. "When I go to the woods now, I always head out along the brook and go straight to the big maple. I run there, like Toby must have done on that stormy night, then I bend down and crawl on the earth. Because what if there's a clue? What if there's a piece of chunky strawberry bubble gum still bundled up in its waxy wrapper, or a weather-faded matchbook, or a fallen button from somebody's big gray coat? What if buried under all those leaves is me? Not this me, but the girl in a Gunne Sax dress with the back zipper open. The girl with the best boots in the world. What if she's under there? What if she's crying? Because she will be, if I find her. Her tears tell the story of what she knows. That the past, present, and future are just one thing. That there's nowhere to go from here. Home is home is home." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
13. "Don't you see? It's like we've known each other all these years. Without even seeing each other. It's like there's been this . . . this ghost relationship between us. You laying out my plectrums on the floor, me buying black-and-white cookies every time I knew you would be coming over. You didn't know that was me, but it was." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
14. "...What's the one superpower of June Elbus?"I thought about myself from head to toe. It was like being forced to read the most boring part of the Sears catalog. Like leafing through the bathroom accessories pages. Boring brain. Boring face. No sex appeal. Clumsy hands."Heart. Hard heart," I said, not sure where it came from. "The hardest heart in the world.""Hmmm," Toby said, tapping a finger in the air. "That's a useful one, you know. Very handy. The question is . . ." Toby paused like he was considering this all very seriously."What's the question?""The question is, stone or ice? Crack or melt?" ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
15. "They segued into a more general piece about AIDS. As usual, they started out with footage of some kind of sweaty nightclub in the city with a bunch of gay men dancing around in stupid leather outfits. I couldn't even begin to imagine Finn dancing the night away like some kind of half-dressed cowboy. It would have been nice if for once they show some guys sitting in their living rooms drinking tea and talking about art or movies or something. If they showed that, then maybe people would say, "Oh, okay, that's not so strange." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
16. "Greta knows that for me there are no good parties. I'm okay with one or two people, but more than that and I turn into a naked mole rat. That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
17. "It was a nice thing for her to say. In her way. With Greta you have to look out for the nice things buried in the rest of her mean stuff. Greta's talk is like a geode. Ugly as anything on the outside and for the most part the same on the inside, but every once in a while there's something that shines through." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
18. "I only need one good friend to see me through. Most people aren't like that. Most people are always looking out for more people to know." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
19. "Please promise to take the very best care of my only girl. With so much love my heart might split in two..." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
20. "If you close your eyes when you sing in Latin, and if you stand right at the back so you can keep one hand against the cold stone wall of the church, you can pretend you're in the Middle Ages. That's why I did it. That's what I was in it for." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
21. "I really wondered why people were always doing what they didn't like doing. It seemed like life was a sort of narrowing tunnel. Right when you were born, the tunnel was huge. You could be anything. Then, like, the absolute second you were born, the tunnel narrowed down to about half the size. . . . I figured that, on the day you died, the tunnel would be so narrow, you'd have squeezed yourself in with so many choices, that you just got squashed." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
22. "I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
23. "That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space. The worst thing is the stupid hopefulness. Every new party, every new bunch of people, and I start thinking that maybe this is my chance. That I'm going to be normal this time. A new leaf. A fresh start. But then I find myself at the party, thinking, Oh, yeah. This again. So I stand on the edge of things, crossing my fingers, praying nobody will try to look me in the eye. And the good thing is, they usually don't." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
24. "I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
25. "I used to think maybe I wanted to become a falconer, and now I'm sure of it, because I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
26. "If my life was a film, I'd have walked out by now." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
27. "Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can't let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they're right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don't want you to see." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
28. "I had no idea how greedy my heart really was." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
29. "But maybe I am. Maybe that's exactly what I am. Maybe all I wanted was for Toby to hear the wolves that lived in the dark forest of my heart. And maybe that's what it meant. Tell the Wolves I'm Home. Maybe Finn understood everything, as usual. You may as well tell them where you live, because they'll find you anyway. They always do." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
30. "She was wired into my heart. Twisted and kinked and threaded right through." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
31. "I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
32. "There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
33. "Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?" ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
34. "Things you'd never even seen with Finn could remind you of him, because he was the one person you'd want to show. "Look at that," you'd want to say, because you knew he would find a way to think it was wonderful. To make you feel like the most observant person in the world for spotting it." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
35. "But if they loved each other so much, couldn't they talk it out?" Toby gave an exasperated laugh. "You get into habits. Ways of being with certain people." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
36. "Opening a present from a live person was scary enough. There was always the chance that the gift might be so wrong, so completely not the kind of thing you liked, that you'd realize they didn't really know you at all." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
37. "Every new party, every new bunch of people, and I start thinking that maybe this is my chance.That I'm going to be normal this time. A new leaf. A fresh start. But then I find myself at the party, thinking, Oh, yeah. This again." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
38. "Then we left, just me running with my sister, the wolves at our backs." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
39. "The day my mother gave us the keys, she also made me and Greta sign a form so that the bank knew our signatures. To get in we had to show our key and sign something so they would know it was really us. I was worried that my signature wouldn't look the same. I wasn't sure when that thing would happen that made it so you always signed your name exactly the same, but it hadn't happened to me yet. So far I'd only had to sign something three times. Once for a code of conduct for the eighth grade field trip to Philadelphia, once for a pact I made with Beans and Frances Wykoski in fifth grade that we'd never have boyfriends until high school. (Of the three of us, I'm the only one who kept that pact.)" ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
40. "I . . . Why do you want me to?" There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness, and then she said, "Why wouldn't I want you to?" Because you hate me, I thought, but I didn't say it." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
41. "Why, June, you sound surprised." He'd put on an offended-housewife voice, but it was in a hoarse whisper, so it sounded like an offended housewife who smoked five packs of cigarettes a day. I laughed." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
42. "Finn said art isn't about drawing or painting a perfect bowl of fruit.It's about ideas.And you,he said,have enough good ideas to last a lifetime."-Toby" ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
43. "It felt like all the blood in my body had swum up to my face , leaving the skin around my heart completely transparent." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
44. "I stared at Greta's back. At her matted hair, decorated with brown torn leaves and dirt. What was happening to my sister? What if I'd never come? How long would she have stayed hidden in those cool, damp leaves? How long before she woke up alone and scared, with nothing but the howling of wolves to keep her company?" ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
45. "But it's my face. Mine and Greta's. We don't belong to everybody." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
46. "I thought how there was a kind of power in being needed. In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones and thickening my blood." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
47. "Beans benim tek arkadasimdi. Çünkü ben hep böyleydim. Benim içimi disimi bilen sadece bir tane iyi arkadasa ihtiyacim vardi. Çogu insan böyle degil. Çogu insan sürekli baska insanlarla tanismak istiyor." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
48. "I'm okay with one or two people, but more than that and I turn into a naked mole rat." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
49. "Zamanda Bir Burusukluk' adli kitapta zamanin kocaman, eski, burusuk, kirisik bir battaniye oldugu yaziyor. Ben de o burusukluklardan birine denk gelmek isterdim. Onun içinde kalmak. Küçücük, simsiki bir kivrimin içine sokulup saklanmak." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
50. "All my parents' music came from greatest hits albums. It was like the thought of getting even one bum track was too much for them to handle." ~ Carol Rifka Brunt
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