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I have always imagined that closing a book is like pausing a film midframe, the characters frozen in their halted worlds, breath held, waiting for the reader to return and bring it all back to life—like a prince’s kiss in a fairy tale.
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“Pretending you're OK when you aren't isn't strength.”
― Lethal White
― Lethal White
“Pretending you’re OK when you aren’t isn’t strength.”
“Well, that’s where you’re wrong,” Robin contradicted him. The champagne had fizzed on her tongue and seemed to give her courage even before it hit her brain. “Sometimes, acting as though you’re all right, makes you all right. Sometimes you’ve got to slap on a brave face and walk out into the world, and after a while it isn’t an act anymore, it’s who you are. If I’d waited to feel ready to leave my room after—you know,” she said, “I’d still be in there. I had to leave before I was ready.”
― Lethal White
“Well, that’s where you’re wrong,” Robin contradicted him. The champagne had fizzed on her tongue and seemed to give her courage even before it hit her brain. “Sometimes, acting as though you’re all right, makes you all right. Sometimes you’ve got to slap on a brave face and walk out into the world, and after a while it isn’t an act anymore, it’s who you are. If I’d waited to feel ready to leave my room after—you know,” she said, “I’d still be in there. I had to leave before I was ready.”
― Lethal White
“The only good thing about losing everything, is the freedom that comes from having nothing left to lose.”
― Rock Paper Scissors
― Rock Paper Scissors
“If you can’t find your way back to Happy, Navigate to the place you know as Less Sad.”
― Daisy Darker
― Daisy Darker
“We aren’t our mistakes. It’s what we do about the mistake that shows who we are.”
― Troubled Blood
― Troubled Blood
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