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“You said the lake was getting warmer,” Maisie yells. “If all hope is lost we should at least get a decent swim out of it.”
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Alison Espach
“It is so much easier to sit in things and wait for something to save us.”
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Alison Espach
“I mean, I just worry... I don't think about what I want, I just worry about what might happen to me and then figure out how to keep those things from happening.”
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Alison Espach
“I didn’t want to be saved from myself. Nobody does! All we want is permission to stand there naked and be our damned selves.”
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Alison Espach
“She is so good at predicting what will happen in books, so bad at predicting what will happen in life. That is why she has always preferred books - because to be alive is so much harder.”
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Alison Espach
“If she is going to live, she's going to live differently this time.”
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