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“That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song”

“…"better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.”

“Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.”

“The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.”

“Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.”

“Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?”

“You bring your own weather to the picnic.”

“Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.”

“Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something”

“I don’t regret the things I’ve done. I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.”

“Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.”

“For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do? It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?”

“Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay”

“There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.”

“No, I don’t live in heartache. I don’t cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And—like it or not—I still think about her every single day.”

“Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.”

“So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."
Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely.”