“Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
― It
― It
“Of course all this happened a long time ago. And nothing like that could happen again, not in this day and age.”
― The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
― The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“The tears dissolve the last block of ice in my throat. I feel the frozen stillness melt down through the inside of me, dripping shards of ice that vanish in a puddle of sunlight on the stained floor. Words float up
Me: "Let me tell you about it.”
― Speak
Me: "Let me tell you about it.”
― Speak
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