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"But that claim of fearlessness became a state I tried to inhabit, an identity I eventually made my own."

"Sometimes she cries because things are so beautiful and we keep messing them up. Because the world doesn't have to be so terrifying. That's on people, not the world."

"Don't let yourself panic. Don't give the Capitol that. They've taken enough already."

"That's what humans do: we make and remake our stories, abandoning the ones that no longer fit and trying on new ones for size."

"There are gaps in the mesh of the everyday world, and sometimes they open up and you fall through them into somewhere else. Somewhere Else runs at a different pace to the here and now, where everyone else carries on."

"All of us are evolutions of ourselves, changing over time as the calendar moves forward. Who we are when we leave this world is not who we were when we entered."

"It's surprising how much you can miss someone you're not sure ever really loved you."

"I suppose change likes to be subtle, sneaking in even when we think we're paying attention."

"Pain is meant to take up space or else we wouldn't know how to scream. Fuck making your agony silent to avoid disturbing others. Maybe they SHOULD be disturbed."

"Evander takes an automatic step away, because things like this are not for him - the outdoors and sunlight and hot summer days. He is an autumn leaf, meant to be pressed between the pages of an old book and forgotten."

"He wishes his brain moved in one direction, not a dozen all at the same time, and that he didn't pull apart in a panic if even one thing goes wrong. He tries, but somehow even trying means he's failed."

Facts: this is so cheesy.
Also facts: I am 100 % invested!

Wren: "I wonder how you'd sleep if you gave up coffee for good?"
Tate: "I'm not sure that's a life worth living."
😂😂 Same, my brother. Same.

"You ain't the only one with hurt, Junie. The world is full of it. And going through it thinking you're the only one carrying something is an easy way to lose the bit of love you might have."

"Everybody is always still trying to learn, day after painful day, how to be themselves."

"How similar does someone have to be to you before you remember to see them first as human?"

"If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance, and then you need to talk to people who know more than you do, people who have not just thought about the facts but lived them."

"'Just be yourself', they tell you, to put you at ease. As if just being yourself is so easy. As if for so many people it isn't the very thing that most puts you at risk in this cruel and heartless world."

"They were so busy holding their shit together, I think they lost sight of themselves."

"People always talk about how their love for you is unconditional, then you reveal your most private self to them and you find out how many conditions there are in unconditional love."

"Here's what they do not tell you about falling in love: there's not always a soft landing beneath you. It's called 'falling' because it's bound to break you."

"Nobody is a do-over of anybody else, and if you get to do anything at all on earth, it's live your own life, not be some sort of ghost version of somebody else's."

So far so fantastic! Listening to the audio by Nicholas Ralph is really making me love this! (I'm already planning comfort re-reads. 😂😂)