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“Everyone just kind of leans their expectations of who you are on you and it makes you petrified of who you really might be.”
― How to Be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously.
― How to Be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously.
“There is no prose as inspiring as a single human being with the courage to live well.”
― How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously
― How to be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.”
― I Wrote This For You
― I Wrote This For You
“I hope you discover that love is both a feeling and an action, like light is both a particle and a wave.”
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“What’s this?”
“It’s a napkin used by the saddest girl in the world to dry her tears.”
“Let me guess. Sylvia Plath?”
“No, no one famous. But we knew about her. She gave off so much resonance, it turned our entire map black for one city block.”
“And she was no one special?”
“You wouldn’t recognise her name if I told it to you.”
“So just an everyday, normal person carrying their shopping, reading books at night and going for drinks occasionally with her friends, just some person, that’s the saddest girl in the world?”
“Yes. Just a regular person.”
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“It’s a napkin used by the saddest girl in the world to dry her tears.”
“Let me guess. Sylvia Plath?”
“No, no one famous. But we knew about her. She gave off so much resonance, it turned our entire map black for one city block.”
“And she was no one special?”
“You wouldn’t recognise her name if I told it to you.”
“So just an everyday, normal person carrying their shopping, reading books at night and going for drinks occasionally with her friends, just some person, that’s the saddest girl in the world?”
“Yes. Just a regular person.”
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