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"I wonder if I have actually been happy. People have told me, really more times than I can remember, ever since I was a small boy, how lucky I was, but I have always felt as if I were suffering in hell. It has seemed to me in fact that those who called me lucky were incomparably more fortunate than I." oh okay!

"afraid, always afraid, that this was still some splintered version of pretend, that she was only crafting a new version for him when she wanted to believe she was really herself. afraid that now she was aldo's regan, which meant that aldo's regan could fade into obscurity; that her honesty with him was just another version of a lie."

i love reading books where it's clear the author has never seen a psychiatrist cause they use psychiatrist and therapist interchangeably every time without fail

"it's obvious, don't you see it, can't you hear it? his name is written on my skin, he scarred me, i've changed my entire shape for having fit within the enormity of his thoughts, and now the only words I know are lines and color."

(haven't you been paying enough attention to run?)

"if others were forced to wait for her time, she thought, then she would not have to owe so much of herself to them."

"i was as much a prisoner outside this empty land as i had been in the cage during my early years."

"death is sometimes so discreet that it steals in noiselessly, stays for only a moment and carries off its prey[...]"

"He contributed to the quiet he wished for by offering no violence, no contention, and to do this he had to retire into secretness, since there is some violence in everyone. He covered his life with a veil of vagueness, while behind his quiet eyes a rich full life went on. This did not protect him from assault but it allowed him an immunity."

you can boast about anything if it's all you have

"christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."

"though no one knew it, the stars were aligning, the angels were calling."

a bud is not a false flower. ya gotta give it time

"both of them were ahead of their time, but they didn't live long enough to see the time they were ahead of." devastating

"the goodwill that surrounded us was proof that the fates were conspiring to help their enthusiastic children."

"two years before, he had rescued me, [...] now i had rescued him. on that count we were even." oh i can't do this

"where does it all lead? what will become of us? [...] it leads to each other. we become ourselves."

"i swiftly clicked him" it's not clocking to you that im standing on business

"but the urge to express myself was my strongest desire, and my siblings were my first eager coconspirators in the harvesting of my imagination. [...] with them in my corner, anything seemed possible."

"But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead."

"every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away."

"it used to be a perfectly ordinary day but now it sticks up on the calendar like a rusty nail."

"everything came alive in her company; she cast a charmed theatrical light about her so that to see anything through her eyes was to see it in brighter colors than ordinary"

"so what do you do? ignore your grief or indulge it?" [...] "but maybe every day we let grief in, we'll also let a little bit of it out, and eventually we'll be able to breathe again."

"as if the lack of oxygen has caused all our molecules to rearrange."

"we had, like seven siblings, spent so much time together that we had seen the best and worst of one another and were unimpressed by either."

random kansas city chiefs mention i will never escape this place

"you shot me! why did you shot me?!"
"are you stupid? why do you think?"
LMFAOOO

"this isn't playin' boys. you're in the south now." OHHHH BROTHERRRR THIS GUY STIIIIIINKS

not stephen king referencing his OWN book and character LMFAO the pennywise mention is taking me out