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I knew exactly what Love looked like...in seventh grade. Even though I hadn't met Love yet, if Love had wandered into my homeroom, I would have recognized him at first glance.
I’ve gotten so good about not flinching at the sound of your name that people don’t know I’d still throw myself mouth-open into the ocean for the chance to drop somewhere you might see it.
AABRIA: As she's holding your letter to Hob in her left hand, her nail presses just a little too hard into it and you see that first little bit of a bent into it as she's kind of holding it a little too tight.
SURENA: I reach my mind out to everyone, to Rue, to Captain Hob, to Lord Airavis, to Lady Chirp, and I say, BINX: My home is always, always, forever open to you. Should you need a place to rest your head, a place to find comfort, laughter, my home is yours.
And Love will tell you, you are beautiful and mean it. Over and over again. You are beautiful: When you just wake up. You are beautiful: When you've just been crying. You are beautiful: When you don't want to hear it. You are beautiful: When you don't believe it.
“I love you.” “I lo-” “Just wait. Wait and tell me when you see me again.”
And even on days when you hang just a sliver in the sky, when it feels like you’re holding on for dear life to this rock, like you are in a death grip tango with the sun, hold on because I’ve seen people I love starve themselves out of the sky.
AYDA: Goodbye for now. By the nine winds and the seven stars and all the secret names of the earth and beyond, I shall see you again. This is my vow.
OMAR: And I want to take a knee. ANDHERA: I have pledged fealty to you. And for the rest of our existence, anytime you are scared, I will reassure you. SURENA: I take your hand, so I'm standing, and you're kneeling. I'll kneel to meet your gaze, and I kiss you.
“As a shameful reminder of my life of crime?” “As a reminder of the first day you didn’t need to steal something because someone was happy enough to give it to you.”
I would like to say something about grace, and the brown corduroy thrift store coat I bought for eight-fifty when you told me my paintings were empty. Never finish a war without starting another. I've seen your true face: the back of your head.
Once there was a lost princess. An octopus saw the Princess' hair that had tumbled into the sea and mistook it for another octopus. And it fell in love.
You know, ever since we were little, I would get this feeling like…Like I’m floating outside of my body, looking down at myself…and I hate what I see. How I’m acting, the way I sound. And I don’t know how to change it. And I’m so scared that the feeling is never gonna go away.
ZAC: I forget if I gave it to anyone, but the little like thing — the thing that I artificed like a rock that can record? BRENNAN: Yeah. ZAC: I'm just gonna, it can record six seconds? BRENNAN: Yep. ZAC: I just wanna say, GORGUG: (into the rock) It's Gorgug, keep going.
AYDA: You are extremely loud and funny and charming, and that's so exciting. FIG: (giggling) Thank you so much! I mean, you're really direct and analytical, and you kind of deconstruct things before my eyes and make me see them in a different way. And I really like that.
SURENA: I reach my mind out to everyone, to Rue, to Captain Hob, to Lord Airavis, to Lady Chirp, and I say, BINX: My home is always, always, forever open to you. Should you need a place to rest your head, a place to find comfort, laughter, my home is yours.
FIG: Does it give you a little bit of self-confidence, like, what just happened? AYDA: Again, I can't speak to all the Aydas who have come before me, but in this version of my life, this is the greatest moment of it, my life.
WUVVY: You know I love you, right? RUE: And I love you. WUVVY: And I only want what's best for you. You should go. RUE: Yes, yes, there's much to do, isn't there? WUVVY: Yeah, I'll take care of things. RUE: You always do, Wuvvy. WUVVY: (whispering) I always do.
And tell me, did you fall from a shooting star? One without a permanent scar. And did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there?
They can see all the other lighthouses out there, and they want to talk to them. But they can't, because they're all too far apart to hear what the others are saying. All they can do…is shine their lights from afar. They shine their lights at the other lighthouses, and at me.