Melanie
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“What I mean is, even a dumbass like me can think everything’s pointless. Why do I get up and eat? It all ends up shit anyway. Why am I going to school and studying? Even if I happen to succeed I’m going to die anyway. You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what’s the point? It’s all pointless. But… but, you see, we still have emotions like joy and happiness, right? They may not amount to much but they fill up our emptiness.”
― Battle Royale
― Battle Royale
“There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. I feel like this is an important idea, one of those ideas that your brain must wrap itself around slowly, the way pythons eat...”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“And when pain bites, men bargain. Boys too. We twist and turn, we plead and beg, we offer our tormentors what he wants so that the hurting will stop. And when there is no torturer to placate, no hooded man with hot irons and tongs, just a burn you can't escape, we bargain with God, or ourselves, depending on the size of our egos.”
― King of Thorns
― King of Thorns
“I get the strange urge to hit my head against the wall. Other people's sobs make me feel uncomfortable.”
― Insurgent
― Insurgent
“There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.”
― King of Thorns
― King of Thorns
Melanie’s 2025 Year in Books
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Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Philosophy, Psychology, Romance, Science, Self help, Suspense, Thriller, Young-adult, and War
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