“Life is messy. We all know this. Terrible things happen, I learned that while I was still a child. But no matter what happens, life is only a series of days. You can’t control more than a single day. But you can control one of them.”
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“None of us had realized quite how fragile Alice was. She had always seemed so capable, so in control: getting all those amazing grades, playing on the sports teams, getting her place at university, never missing a trick. But underneath that, fuelling all this success, was a tangled mass of anxiety that none of us saw until it was too late.”
― The Guest List
― The Guest List
“Just because the rest of us don’t wear our hearts on our sleeves, just because we have found a way of managing our feelings – it doesn’t mean they’re not there.”
― The Guest List
― The Guest List
“Sometimes the most horrible things are what give us strength.”
― Fairy Tale
― Fairy Tale
“I want to tell her to wipe off the lipstick and eyeliner, to stay in that safe childhood space for a while longer.”
― The Guest List
― The Guest List
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