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“Do you ever feel,” she asked, “that adulthood was thrust upon you at too young an age, and that you are still essentially a child mimicking the behaviors of the adults all around you in hopes they won’t discover the meager contents of your heart?”
― Patrick deWitt, French Exit

“He was free but didn’t know it: trapped by the walls of his interpretations and stories, the perpetual trance of his self-constructed reality.”
― Matthew Maxwell, How To Hold a Cockroach: A book for those who are free and don't know it

“I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince