“Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.”
― Where Things Come Back
― Where Things Come Back
“He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you want my opinion-‘
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.”
― Beloved
‘I don’t, ‘ She said. ‘I have my own.”
― Beloved
“A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted- mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more.”
― Second Chance Summer
― Second Chance Summer
“And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
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