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“Do you think it’s funny that both of our favorite memories are about the people we like the least now?” I ask. “Maybe that’s why we dislike them,” she says. “The distance between who they were and who they are is so wide, we have no hope of getting them back.”
― The Sun Is Also a Star
― The Sun Is Also a Star
“But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“Why can't healing happen as quickly as wounding?”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
“we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
― Cloud Cuckoo Land
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