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1. "There is not a name for what I'm feeling. There is no description for it.To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water.Whatever this thing is, it shoves you inside itself and you can't measure its boundaries because they go too far and you don't have enough time. Or you move toward the boundaries and they move away.There has been an earthquake in my life.Catastrophic, civilization-ending." ~ R.A. Nelson
2. "Why do people need other people so much? Why can't we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?" ~ R.A. Nelson
3. "I'd make oatmeal cookies.""Cookies?""I would. That's just what I would do.""Why?"He lifts one hand from the steering wheel and pinches his chin. "Because the world is changing so fast all the time. There's nothing you can do but just say, 'cool,' and roll with it. But some things can stay the same. Flour is still flour. Vanilla still smells like vanilla. Say a giant fireball is motoring toward us right now from Alha Centauri. Okay, universe. You expect us to run and scream and kill one another? Sorry, we're making oatmeal freaking cookies." ~ R.A. Nelson
4. "This is the thing about life I've never really understood until now: we try so hard to control it, but bad things happen anyway. The only real control is an anti-control, a letting go." ~ R.A. Nelson
5. "His voice is a chain pulling me back to Earth." ~ R.A. Nelson
6. "Life is a war, and the families are the armies. Even if you win the war, some will never see you plant the flag." ~ R.A. Nelson
7. "He clenches his fist against my back and speaks into my neck. His voice is warm. I didn't mean to take it this far..I lift my blurry eyes. That still means you meant to take it." ~ R.A. Nelson
8. "To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water." ~ R.A. Nelson
9. "Is this what we have to look forward to? The world of adults feels like a universe that has reached the end of its expansion and is inexorably collapsing back in on itself." ~ R.A. Nelson
10. "Everything's a game,' Sagan said. 'When you get down to it. Everything in life is ultimately some kind of strategy. If you have a better strategy than the other guy, he's going down." ~ R.A. Nelson
11. "A latter-day Go Ask Alice, BEAUTIFUL is raw, gritty, and powerful, an intense ice-pick jab to the heart. A stunning debut and a must-read." ~ R.A. Nelson

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