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“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.”
― The Setting Sun
― The Setting Sun
“You, too, are cut out for failure; not that you’d fight the world. You’d let it chew you up and spit you out, and you’d lie there wondering what was wrong. Because you’d always expect the world to be something it wasn’t, something it had no wish to be. The weevil in the cotton, the worm in the beanstalk, the borer in the corn. You couldn't face them, and you couldn't fight them; because you’re too weak, and you’re too strong. And you have no place to go in the world.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
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