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“Blind terror in a fight can easily pass for courage.”
― Rumble Fish
― Rumble Fish
“I made a list in my head of people I liked. I do that a lot. It makes me feel good to think of people I like--not so alone.”
― Rumble Fish
― Rumble Fish
“He didn't even care what I looked like. I could be anything, do anything- and it pleased him. Something about that made me mad.”
― Jazz
― Jazz
“The children of suicides are hard to please and quick to believe no one loves them because they are not really here.”
― Jazz
― Jazz
“You’re burning memory,” he told her. “I am not.” She would not place her memory on things that strangers could barge in and take away. “My memory is inside me.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
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