“He’s never cut his own skin, but he understands those who do. Sometimes he has longed so much for a pain he can see and focus on that he’s taken the train to a town several hours away, waited until dark, and then sought out the biggest bastards he could find to start a fight with, and then fought until they had no choice but to give him a serious beating. Because sometimes, when it seriously hurt on the outside, it hurt a little bit less in other places.”
― Beartown
― Beartown
“I'm more than just a piece in their Games.”
― The Hunger Games
― The Hunger Games
“To those out on their own paths, setting little fires”
― Little Fires Everywhere
― Little Fires Everywhere
“We're all lucky,not because every thing works out, but we get to wake up in the morning and take chances and make mistakes and keep trying not to.”
― The Lucky List
― The Lucky List
“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
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