“She joked about her fears, but it was the kind of joke where you knew people thought it was ridiculous, and you pretended you thought so too, but underneath you were completely serious.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“Always learn poems by heart,” she said. “They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they’ll make your soul impervious to the world’s soft decay.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“Women always put men first. That’s how everything got so screwed up.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“Part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again we’ll do it the right way.”
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“Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
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