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“You try and act so tough, you think you're so damn hopeless and godless and faithless, but you don't fool me. People without hope aren't tormented by the world the way you are. People without hope don't give a shit. but I see it in you, in the way you look at things, even in the way you look at me sometimes, like I'm the coolest fucking guy in the universe, and I know it's in there. Reverence. Belief. Something. You have a lot more faith than you own up to. You just don't want to be let down. But I'm not going to let you down again. Not if I can help it.”
― God-Shaped Hole
― God-Shaped Hole
“I step through the door anyway, knowing that the hard thing and the right thing are usually the same thing.”
― Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
― Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
“Personally, I don’t like inherently happy people. I don’t trust them. I think there’s something seriously wrong with anyone who isn’t at least a little let down by the world.”
― How to Kill a Rock Star
― How to Kill a Rock Star
“She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.”
― The Husband's Secret
― The Husband's Secret
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