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Never before have I imagined my life without him—like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear.

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Strong, Home, Oil

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At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed window – do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physically capable of no more, or does it eventually learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?

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Giving Up, Survival, Trying

"Forbidden". Book by Tabitha Suzuma, 2010.

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Before there was anything, there was Lochan.

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Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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She can't just be a face, a body; there has to be more than that, some kind of connection. And I can't connect, don't want to connect, with anyone.

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Connections, Body, Want

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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I want to tell her that I can't pull her down. I want to tell her that she has to let go of my hand in order to swim. I want to tell her that she must live her own life. But I sense she already knows that these options are open to her. And that she, too, has made her choice.

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Letting Go, Hands, Order

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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I would give anything to escape myself, Flynn thought, just for a day, just for a minute even. Just to know what it was like to think differently, to feel differently, and to not be me.

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Thinking, Giving, Minutes

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He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“ You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?“ I gasp in mock outrage. For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies!

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Jesus, Night, Swear To God

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Time has stopped; time is racing. Lochie's lips are rough yet smooth, hard yet gentle. His fingers are strong: I feel them in my hair and on my neck and down my arms and against my back. And I never want him to let me go.

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Strong, Hair, Racing

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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Willa’s big blue eyes, Willa’s dimpled-cheeked smile. Tiffin’s shaggy blond mane, Tiffin’s cheeky grin. Kit’s yells of excitement, Kit’s glow of pride. Maya’s face, Maya’s kisses, Maya’s love. Maya, Maya, Maya . . .

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Eye, Pride, Kissing

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And the very important fact that I'm here to worry with you and go through all of this - every little bit of it - by your side, even your worst-case-scenario, should it somehow come to that. You wouldn't be doing any of it alone.' Her voice drops and she looks down at our hands, fingers entwined, resting on her lap. 'Whatever happens, there will always be us.

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Hands, Your Side, Worst Case Scenario

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I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.

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People, Feelings, Overcoming

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.417, Simon and Schuster

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Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.

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Fall, Falling Apart

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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This whole time, my whole life, that harsh, stony path was leading up to this one point. I followed it blindly, stumbling along the way, scraped and weary, without any idea of where it was leading, without ever realizing that with every step I was approaching the light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel. And now that I've reached it, now that I'm here, I want to catch it in my hand, hold onto it forever to look back on - the point at which my new life really began.

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Dark, Tunnels, Light

Tabitha Suzuma (2011). “Forbidden”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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But I don't want to be fine, not if it means she's going to let go of my hand; not if it means we're going to go back to being polite strangers.

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Letting Go, Mean, Hands

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And this is something I must accept - even if, like acid on metal, it is slowly corroding me inside.

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Acid, Accepting, Metals

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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And I know how he feels–it’s so good it hurts.

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Hurt, Feels, Know How

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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But then why is it so terrible for me to be with the girl I love? Everyone one is permitted to have what they want, express their love as they please, without fear of harassment, ostracism, persecution, or even the law. Even emotionally abusive, adulterous relationships are often tolerated, despite the harm they cause others. In our progressive, permissive society, all these harmful, unhealthy types of "love" are allowed--but not ours.

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Girl, Law, Want

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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You cannot undo the past; you can only learn to live with it, find some way of making peace with it, and move on.

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Moving, Past, Way

Tabitha Suzuma (2013). “Hurt”, p.154, Random House

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Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.

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Together, Being Together, Harm

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on.

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Dream, Perfect, Focus

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How-how can we make it against the whole world?

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World, Whole, Whole World

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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He will think Lochan wasn't loved, but he was, more deeply than most people are in a lifetime.

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Thinking, People, Lifetime

Tabitha Suzuma (2010). “Forbidden”, p.410, Random House

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only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial, forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge who we are: two people in love – a love that nobody else could possibly understand.

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Two, People, Denial

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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But whichever form it took it brought with it, in those moments of bitter anguish, such a desperate surge of hope that it was almost untouchable, and flitted away like a golden butterfly into the bright blue sky - beautiful, unreachable and completely transistent.

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Beautiful, Butterfly, Blue

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I mean, at the end of the day, what the hell does it matter who I end up with if it can't be you?

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Heartbroken, Hope, Mean

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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