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I do what I have to, and it’s not always nice, and it’s not always fair, but it’s how I survive. I’m sorry you disapprove. But this is who I am. This is what works for me.

“You’re incredible, and strong, and stubborn, and brilliant. But I think it’s safe to say you’re never going to be normal.”

O diabo é só uma palavra nova para um conceito muito antigo. E quanto a Deus, pode servir se você só precisa de um pouco de drama e um bom acabamento em dourado…

“I mean, is it just feeling happy for no reason? Or is it making other people happy? Is it being happy with your job, or your life, or—”

Ideas are wilder than memories.

“You can have my life when I am done with it. You can have my soul when I don’t want it anymore.”

And anyone else who tries to take my son from me will suffer the same fate.

First, she's a liar. Second, she's responsible for the worst thing that ever happened to me. And third, if she doesn't kill me, she's making a grave mistake.

What he wants and what will happen are two completely different things.

Life is long and full of an infinite number of decisions. I have to think that the small ones don’t matter, that I’ll end up where I need to end up no matter what I do. My fate will find me. So I decide to . . .

“You know, when I heard it was you I’d be getting, I was looking forward to breaking you. But I don’t think it’s possible to exceed what you’ve done to yourself.”

“physicists believed that reality is a simulation created by future civilizations purely for entertainment.”

“Hiding was not a coping mechanism. It was delusional. ”

“It’s piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up.”

“Live bold, be bold, lie bold,”

Excerpt From
Emergency Contact
Mary H. K. Choi
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“noisy people were boring on the inside. No more than the textbook swirl of insecurities and narcissism.”

“Some people’s coping mechanisms were all about festering and secrecy and ruminating until you grew yourself a nice little tumor in your heart with a side of panic attack. Different strokes.”

“Guilt is a little like grief. A cancer of the soul. They both hollow you out from the inside.”

“You may not able to judge a book by its cover, but you can certainly judge a person by their books.”

Excerpt From
The Burning Girls
C. J. Tudor

“Redeem the Time, for the Days are Evil.”

“She was incapable of insulting us, because the words have to have meaning to hurt.”

Excerpt From
The Butterfly Garden
Dot Hutchison
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“I wasn’t worried about being found; to be found, someone has to be looking for you.”

Excerpt From
The Butterfly Garden
Dot Hutchison
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Ex girlfriends are so crazy

“When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big an expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitudes and latitudes. Just as, she supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside any one person.”

Don't regret your choices. But rather the choices you made to make others happy.