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what i mean is… it’s a beautiful weakness. that’s what we’re protecting, always, each in our own way. it’s what we fight for. 136

but everything starts from nothing. always. you were born for no reason, and the same for me. there’s no reason for us to be here. 122

a time will come when everything will be clear. even the other kids will understand. a time will come, i’m sure of it, when everything will be alright. 73

nervousness filled my stomach like a gas, climbing up my throat and threatening to choke me. it ran down my arms and made my hands sting. 61

every painting was a moment of destruction coinciding with the birth of something wonderful” 46

“maybe it takes a long time to figure out what you’re truly searching for. maybe you spent your whole life just to figure out a small part of it”

the only way to stop being afraid of darkness out there is to find a darkness inside yourself that’s bigger. 333

“what is a community? it is the sum total of our choices.” 312

“he had been a child heading straight into darkness when hockey found him. dune dragged him to the surface and this team kept him afloat. with a mom who died when he was in primary school and a dad who was always teetering on the brink between happy during and cruel alcoholic, when peter was a little boy found something to cling on to, he held on until his knuckles turned white.” 205

“it’s light outside now, but that doesn’t make any difference. she’s scared of the darkness, in the middle of the day.” 199

“he’s always been right about you! you’re a virus, benji, a fucking virus. you can’t live without some sort of host!” 191

everyone has a thousand wishes before a tragedy, but just one afterward. when a child is born, its parents dream of it being as unique as possible, until it gets ill, when suddenly all they want it’s for everything to be normal. 185

“one of the many things snatched from the girl that night is the place where she never needed to feel afraid. everyone had a place like that, until it gets taken from us. you never get it back again.” 183

“everyone. all your life you’re told exactly what happens. even so, no one tells you it’s going to be like this.” 174

“the bass player laughs loudly, and the sound sings between the trees and hits benji in the head as quickly as in his chest. very few people have that effect. very few people are tequila and champagne at the same time.” 171

“as if this barn weren’t at the end of the world but at its beginning” 167

“he’s always liked toying with the idea of falling through and disappearing into the cold darkness beneath, even when he was a child. wondering if everything painful would cause less pain down there.” pg 165

“kevin likes the fact that she’s different. that her eyes never quite stop moving, that she’s always watching. that she seems to know who she is. he wishes he could be like that.” 164

“we become what we are told we are, anna has always been told that she is wrong” endish of chapter 10

“there’s an obvious difference between the children who live in homes where the money can run out and the ones who don’t. his old you are when you realize that also makes a difference.”
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“life’s full of things that you might think are the worst right after they happen, but as time passes and you reflect, you realize that the might have been for the better. so, if you start thinking that it was for the better from the start, lots of things become more enjoyable.” pg 261