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“Dear J.,I want to explain something.After my dad set me on fire...Well...He died in jail while I was in the hospital getting skin grafts. And I never got to tell him how much he hurt me. Not just p...”
“When I loved myself enough, I would sometimes wake in the night to music playing within me.”
“He liked to get off by himself, a mile or so from camp, and listen to the country, not the men.”
“It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.”
“It's irresponsible to think things are just going to work out because you believe things happen for a reason. I refuse to accept these things. I refuse to give in to that absurdity. You saw what ha...”
“She had a beautiful face, a beautiful body, but also a distance in her such as he had never met a woman.”
“When I loved myself enough, I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe.”
“When I loved myself enough, I let the tomboy in me swing off the rope in Jackass Canyon. Yes!”
“Honesty is the only way with anyone, when youll be so close as to be living inside each others skins.”
“He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.”
“Phoebe realized how very wrong shed been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the places shed grown up in. In the dingy little apartments her mother rented, everyth...”
“This is perhaps why so many of us who know love fear love. We know that love is not the absence of pain. If anything, love is the promise of pain. No one has loved more deeply than God. Has anyone ...”
“The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it mig...”
“It was suicide, wasn't it?""In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't cooperate.""Thirty-two stab wounds i...”
“Jimmi manages a laugh that makes my skin crawl. Do you really think what you read in those books is true? Sure, some of it may be but have you ever actually paid attention to it? It's all false set...”
“Why would they lie to us?Because deep down, we're all afraid of having peace. Because deep down we know we're all poisoned. We're more afraid of ourselves than we are of others. In that thinking, w...”
“Yeah, well all I can say is that a half truth is a still a while lie, ain't it...”
“Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.”
“The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.”
“I just inhaled kimchi ramen. Nose on fire. Next chapter may be obscured by tears.”
