Tabitha Suzuma Quotes - Page 2

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I love you in–in every kind of way.’ ‘I feel like that too . . .’ His voice is shocked and raw. ‘It’s – it’s a feeling so big I sometimes think it’s going to swalow me. It’s so strong I feel it could kil me. It keeps growing and I can’t – I don’t know what to do to stop it. But – but we’re not supposed to do this – to love each other like this!

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Strong, Love You, Thinking

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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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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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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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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 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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He is my soul mate, my fresh air, the reason I look forward to getting up every morning.

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Morning, Air, Soul

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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The words fire from my mouth like bullets, ricocheting off the walls before I can even register what I'm saying.

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Wall, Fire, Mouths

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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Pressed up against him, I can feel the thud of his heart against mine, his ribcase expanding and contracting rapidly against my chest, the warm whisper of his breath tickling the side of my neck, the brush of his leg against my thigh. Resting my arms on his shoulders, I pull back a little to get a look at his face. But he isn't smiling any more.

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Heart, Looks, Legs

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Family: the most important thing of all. My siblings may drive me crazy at times but they are my blood. They’re all I’ve known. My family is me. They are my life. Without them I walk the planet alone. Forbidden, Tabitha Suzuma

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Sibling, Crazy, Blood

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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I've never seen anyone sleep with their head hanging off the back of a wooden chair before - was the couch not comfortable enough for you?

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Sleep, Enough, Chairs

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I feel like I'm going crazy: seeing you every day but never being able to - to hold you, to touch you when anyone else is around. i just want to take your hand, kiss you, hug you, without having to hide all the time. All those things every other couple takes for granted!

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Couple, Crazy, Kissing

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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What else could he possibly have done? What choices did he ever have?

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Choices, Done

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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And I know how he feels—it’s so good it hurts. I think I’m going to die from happiness. I think I’m going to die from pain. Time has stopped; time is racing.

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Hurt, Pain, Thinking

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

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There are no laws, no boundaries on feelings.We can love each other as much and as deeply as we want.No one, Maya, no one can ever take that away from us.

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Law, Feelings, Want

Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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If I move, if I speak, if I so much as blink, I'm going to lose this battle.

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Moving, Battle, Speak

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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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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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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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