Saray-Marie
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“We love our mother unknowingly, and only realize how deep-rooted that love is at the ultimate separation.”
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“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.”
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“Alone and rejected, Mummy Boy wept,
then went to the cabinet
where the snack food was kept.”
― The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
then went to the cabinet
where the snack food was kept.”
― The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.”
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