“I'm so unwhole. I don't know where all the pieces of me are, how to fit them together, how to make them stick. Or if I even can.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.”
― Before I Fall
― Before I Fall
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
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