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“All statistics have outliers.”
“Death is one lover who cannot be spurned.”
“We feel most alive when we are closest to death.”
“Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.”
“We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducksdamsels.”
“We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks…damsels.”
“Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.”
“Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.”
“Fuck your manners.""You don't have to settle for just my manners.”
“Hatred is about possession. It is all-consuming, cruel, and vainglorious. When love is allowed to fester, it becomes twisted and corrupt; it settles deep in the heart...and metastasizes, sending it...”
“Did you think I'd only want you once? Oh, my, you are more nave than I thought. Why would I go through so much trouble for a mere tryst? Does a man ride a stallion but one time before condemning it...”
“It wasn't that she was sadsadness had very little to do with it, really, considering that most of the time, she felt close to nothing at all. Feeling required nerves, connections, sensory input. Th...”
“If you don't feel the same way about him, if you're just leading him on, you need to tell him that. I've seen too many nice guys get shafted because a girl can't get over some jerk.”
“Once upon a time, there was a nave and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But the beast did not want to be tamed, for he was a beast and beasts care not...”
“Words were the bane of her existence. She drowned in them when all she wanted was silence, only to have them recede when one desperately-sought phrase would be the key to her salvation. Most things...”
“When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.”
“Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.”
“Her world fragmented into dozens of sharp, cutting shards, shedding the salty blood and saltier tears that ringed the bitter cocktail of her despair. She was caterpillar and butterfly, both, caught...”
“That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.”
“Ask yourself what a man without guile might do to your body in the dark.”
“Don't tell me it's going to fucking be okay! I am not okay with being that fucker's pinata!”
