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"You can't change what happened, or what you did. Try not to destroy yourself over it."

"People tended to fill in the blanks however they wanted. It was not my job to correct them."

"I knew, now, what happened when you turned your story over to someone else. How you become something different, twisted to fit the confines of the page. Something to be consumed instead."

“The only things that can truly scare someone are the things they're capable of believing. The nightmares that linger in your mind during the day linger because they feel possible.”

"But weren't the most dangerous things the ones left unsaid?"

"It was also man-made, and anything made by man had the potential to be laughed at by nature.”

"He gave me a book to give her, said that was the way to any woman's heart worth having."

"Isabel tried to breathe through the misery of holding someone else's hurt within oneself."

"Have you always been like this? Have you just been waiting to happen?"

"How quickly did the belly of despair turn itself over into hope."

"Foolish to hope. But how does one go on not hoping?"

"Survival is victory. Maybe you think you don't deserve it or maybe you're beating yourself up for fighting back because that's how the world tells women to feel when they take charge of their fates. You aren't disposable. You don't owe anyone anything. No one else was looking out for you that day. Your last best hope was you."

"And of course no one should ever confuse being nice with being a good person."

Okay, despite my previous grumblings (and they're still valid)...I'm becoming invested now.

"Not everyone is psychologically capable of entering such a space." ...oh, ya think?

Let me get this straight.... We have one best friend who somehow convinced the anxiety-ridden one to go caving and is insufferably joking about ways to die. And the other best friend has been secretly stalking around in the other one's apartment for no apparent reason. ....ladies, I don't know what you two are exactly but you are definitely not best friends.

It's too early in the book to be finding fault, but I am. Girl, you have generalized anxiety disorder and you barely made it to check your house before you left (I am not making fun; I can relate!)...you have NO business going into a cave. None.
(Also, how the HELL is a cave a "controlled environment"??)

"...especially in a controlled environment like a cave." Excuse me. What?

"You could offer the heart all the instruction you wanted. The heart was often hard of hearing."

"Maybe therapy, like so many things worth doing, hurts when you first start."