What I wanted was the part where people were asked to get together once a week to talk about how to be a good person and, like, hang out with their neighbors. It’s pretty amazing that apparently the only way to get people to do that is to
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“So much life. So much potential. So many bright lights snuffed out before they'd had a chance to taste freedom, all because Eden couldn't tolerate having less than everything. "Shh.”
― Beyond Ruin
― Beyond Ruin
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.”
― Not My Father's Son
― Not My Father's Son
“We both had our first kiss from the same boy in college (a sainted and tender soul who must have made it his business to kiss the girls who would have otherwise graduated unkissed).”
― Truth and Beauty
― Truth and Beauty
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