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“Life throws too much crap at us as it is, so why hold onto something negative if we don't have to?”
― Natasha Preston, Broken Silence

“The world was not perfect. It was dark, evil, and full of monsters in human disguise. The world’s a horrible place, and you were no safer surrounded by family than you were wandering the streets alone.”
― Natasha Preston, Broken Silence

“Sacrificing someone for your own sake was selfish, no matter how it was dressed up. No human is worth more than another. Scarlett”
― Natasha Preston, Awake

“Life is a game; you just have to make sure you’re in control.”
― Natasha Preston, The Lost

“If you don’t trust anyone, then no one can screw you over. You’re going to find that out the hard way,”
― Natasha Preston, The Cabin

“I didn't need to die for him to kill me.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“I never realized that courage was so terrifying.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“You can do far more than you ever imagined.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“We’re more than our mistakes. We’re more than what people expect of us. I have to believe that.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“You have to ask yourself how you can become the best you can be.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“You can do far more than you ever imagined. If you don’t believe that, at least believe me.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“Stories remind me of heroes and possibilities. Stories remind me that I'm not the only one to deal with this. Stories make me feel less alone.”
― Marieke Nijkamp, This Is Where It Ends

“Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that’s all. I don’t know if he’s right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“And I realized that there's a big difference between deciding to leave and knowing where to go.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“There's a word for it," she told me, "in French, for when you have a lingering impression of something having passed by. Sillage. I always think of it when a firework explodes and lights up the smoke from the ones before it."
"That's a terrible word," I teased. "It's like an excuse for holding onto the past."
"Well, I think it's beautiful. A word for remembering small moments destined to be lost.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends'.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“You're better off without me.

And I don't want to be around when you realize it.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“I'm not permitted to explain the rules of the game. Nor to acknowledge whether or not we're playing one.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“Outwardly mocking, but never quite to the point if not wanting to participate.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“No one went looking for adventure; they chased it away.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“But we had plenty of time for youthful indecision, both apart and together, for limping into the future past the unforgettable ash heaps of our histories.”
― Robyn Schneider, The Beginning of Everything

“But now, everything is so quiet. Not just the pool, but my mind, too. I don't even feel the urge to swim to the beat of a song. I'm mentally spent. Out of words. Out of thoughts. It feels so good to be this empty. It's so peaceful.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

“Feeling all the pain of letting them go. And knowing I did the right thing.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

“The trick is to recognize your mistakes, take what you need from them, and move on" -Sue”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

“How many thought does the brain automatically deliver in a single day?"
"Seventy thousand"
"That's right. Do you act on seventy thousand thoughts a day?"
I shake my head.
"Of course you don't. This thought was one in seventy thousand. It's not special”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

“Yesterday, when I took the stage for the sixth time, I read a poem about unreliable friends, people you love and feel bonded to but can never truly trust. It was about feeling alone and vulnerable, and never being able to fully let your guard down.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

“It's me, asking him to let me in. Asking all of them to give a chance to show them that, deep down, I'm not who they think I am. Or, maybe I'm exactly who they think I am, but I no longer want to be.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word

“Shy, insecure, afraid to speak up? “Act as if,” they say. Act as if you’re not. Stand tall when you walk. Project your voice when you talk. Raise your hand in class. Act as if. Speak your mind. Cut your hair. Be the part. Look the part. You can do this. Just act as if. If you really knew me, If you could see inside, You’d find shy and insecure and afraid. Acting as if. Ironic, isn’t it? The only time I’m not Acting “as if”? When I’m on a stage.”
― Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word