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Once you buy into a definition of yourself that has been made by others, you’re a victim.
“Lost love is still love, Eddie. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see their smile or bring them food or tousle their hair or move them around a dance floor. But when those senses weaken, another heightens. Memory. Memory becomes your partner. You nurture it. You hold it. You dance with it. “Life has to end,” she said. “Love doesn’t.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― The Hunger Games
― The Hunger Games
“We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good boy trying to be bad. Through the years these roles would reverse, then reverse again, until we came to accept our dual natures. We contained opposing principles, light and dark.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you’re not really losing it. You’re just passing it on to someone else.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
― The Hunger Games
― The Hunger Games
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