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“Blink and you’re twenty-eight, and everyone else is now a mile down the road, and you’re still trying to find it, and the irony is hardly lost on you that in wanting to live, to learn, to find yourself, you’ve gotten lost.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“A queen
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.”
― Clap When You Land
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.”
― Clap When You Land
“Fight until you can’t breathe, & if you have to forfeit, you forfeit smiling, make them think you let them win.”
― Clap When You Land
― Clap When You Land
“Choosing yourself will always disappoint some people. The sooner we accept this and make peace with it, the better.”
― Women Don't Owe You Pretty
― Women Don't Owe You Pretty
“Because time is cruel to all, and crueler still to artists. Because visions weakens, and voices wither, and talent fades.... Because happiness is brief, and history is lasting, and in the end... everyone wants to be remembered”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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