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“But setbacks can be chances if you look at them from the right angle.” “Sounds like horse shit to me,” Bridget said, sending her mother a mocking smile.”
― Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

“The most terrible loneliness is not the kind that comes from being alone, but the kind that comes from being misunderstood. It is the loneliness of standing in a crowded room, surrounded by people who do not see you, who do not hear you, who do not know the true essence of who you are. And in that loneliness, you feel as though you are fading, disappearing into the background, until you are nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of your former self.”
― George Orwell

“I don't understand this obsession with happiness," she said. "Happiness is like the Hollywood sign. It's big, it's unattainable, and even if you do make it up there, what's there to do but come back down?”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“Opportunities don’t fall in your lap because you want them to. You have to work to make them happen.”
― Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different