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“I never feel anything,” I whisper. “But every time I remember how little
you think of yourself, I feel angry. I feel like banishing anyone and everyone
who ever made you believe you deserve to be alone. Because that kind of pain,
it– it can ruin people, it can make them lose faith in everything, just like
Hamlet did, but you? You look at me more than anyone ever has, and no one
ever looks twice at me. I’m a skull in a graveyard. I’m empty.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Time will cease, disease will fester, and death will die.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“I'm just a skull in the cup of her palm, so what does it really matter if I fly too close to the sun?”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Then I'll spread your ashes in the sea and walk into the waves.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Sometimes hope just isn't enough.
It isn't meant to save people.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Si Dieu me laisse, on sera ensemble pour toujours.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Life is made of so many goodbyes welded together. So dread the endings. Cry and rage and curse them. Just don't forget to cherish the beginnings and all that comes in between.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“She gives people life only to deny it for herself.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“We are all passive protagonists until we learn how to write.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Time, Disease, and Death are the greatest thieves in the world.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“You really are a strange, beautiful thing.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“I wonder, in his arms, how something as intangible as hope is lost. It cannot be misplaced. It cannot be thrown aside. That means, it must be forgotten. Forgetting is an essential part of grief.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“The dead do not haunt, no matter how much you beg them to.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“But sometimes parents love the idea of their child more than the person they are. That kind of love is suffocating.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Bouquets lay next to unread cards wishing recovery in messy cursive. I haven't always understood irony but I like this particular piece. For someone you wish to live, give them something that is dying.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“I understand why it hurts. I understand the loneliness of not being seen. I understand, most of all, from years of watching, that ignorance is worse than cruelty.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“He's going to watch Neo eat. Because eating disorders aren't about vanity. They're about control. And he wants to take whatever his son has left of it”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Hate is a choice. Love is not.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“Don’t ask why.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t believe in reasons.”
― Lancali ., I Fell in Love With Hope

“A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.”
― Shahida Arabi, Becoming the Narcissist’s Nightmare: How to Devalue and Discard the Narcissist While Supplying Yourself

“Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults?”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

“Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

“Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

“Now, see, that's why you want Internet friends. You can find people just exactly like you. Screw your neighbors and your family, too messy...the trouble is, once you filter out everybody that doesn't agree with you, all that's left is maybe this one retired surfer guy living in Idaho.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

“They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior