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He’s eyeing me like I’m his fifth drink. (He’s pretending.) I’m looking like I’d follow him anywhere. (I’m not.)
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Freedom should be freeing, but that doesn't mean it can't be heartbreaking.”
― The First to Die at the End
― The First to Die at the End
“I would propose that to worry people are desensitized is to assume the jurors, and most people, were ever sensitive to Black pain to begin with.”
― You Got Anything Stronger?
― You Got Anything Stronger?
“Nothing extraordinary is ever done out of reason or logic, but because it’s the only way for your soul to breathe.”
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
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