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She couldn’t be around people, but she couldn’t be in remote places either. It wedged her into a special kind of isolation—a kind that, she realized now, was the wrong kind.
“This works to spoil films too: the highest-profile actor with the fewest lines is always the villain, and a sudden wide-shot of a character crossing a road means they are about to be hit by a car. A good author must not only wrong-foot the reader within the narrative, they must do it within the form of the novel itself. There are clues baked into the very object.”
― Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
― Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“That's the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“Every basic task starts to feel like a decision, and that becomes so draining that you end up unable to make any of them.”
― Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
― Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Wherever you are in this world, the sky is still above you. Wherever you are, God still watches over you; He sees into your heart.”
― Longbourn
― Longbourn
“Perhaps it was not an easy thing, to be so entirely happy. Perhaps it was actually quite a fearful state to live in--the knowledge that one had achieved a complete success.”
― Longbourn
― Longbourn
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