The Seas - Samantha Hunt

I read this book years ago. Here's the parts I underlined:

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"So I told her I was in love so badly that it was affecting my vision."

"Being responsible for so much listening made her a very quiet person."

"I did not get a torso of ice though sometimes it feels that way, as if something solid that once was there melted now and still aches with the vacancy of him when it rains."

"It is a lot of work to stay sad."

"I look at myself in the rearview mirror, looking for whatever it is that deforms me to unlovable."

"That if he won't love me, either he'll have to die or else I will."

"Like ninety-seven percent of the world's water is in ocean. Like seventy-five percent of the world is covered with ocean. Like everything is his fault."

"Unwound language can look like the white cord of unwound brain. It can be dangerous to unwind some words."

"My heart jumps up into my mouth and tastes like a bad word."

"I don't think you'll believe what I found," he says. "A word, razbliuto. We should develop it tonight because the word means, 'the feelings one retains for someone he once loved'."

"There's a reason why we have no word for it. You don't get to keep the feelings for someone you once loved. Once you've washed your hands of that person, all those feelings, all that dirty water is washed out to sea. There is no word for that dirty water."

"I did see stars even though the night was too smoky for stars."

"I pet his face and listen to his breath and cannot fall asleep because there is a foreign feeling in my veins and it is the feeling of finally getting what I wanted, and the feeling is colder than I ever thought it would be."

"And that feeling - the feeling of having no feeling - is the most terrifying thing I have known."

"I fell and fell and fell until I was so deep in love that love resembled a well, steep sides with no way out."

"Like the letters are atoms, the words are molecules, and the sentences are elements. You just chose what scale you want to see the world in."