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“Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness.”
― Paint it Black
― Paint it Black
“I understood why she did it. At that moment I knew why people tagged graffiti on the walls of neat little houses and scratched the paint on new cars and beat up well-tended children. It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.”
― Paint it Black
― Paint it Black
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