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“I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.”

“This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”

“It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.”

“It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.”

“All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.”

“I have always been aware of how I break.
I know what kind of situations will break me.
I know what kind of people will do it.
I know how much it will hurt.”

“I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.”

“We love and we feel and we try and we hope.”

“For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.”

“Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?”

“If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.”

“I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life.

You are a second away from saying it.


You have no idea how much I love you.”

“Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there.”

“My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.”

“My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.”

“That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.”

“Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.”

“Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.”

“this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.”

“It's only a game if there is an absence of meaning. And we've already gone too far for that.”

“The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.”

“This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were one of the original two wheels, but suddenly you're not so important anymore. The relationship drives fine without you.”

“arrears, n.
My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that.
"It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

“if my whole world is going to crash down around me, then i am going to make the sound of the crashing”

“This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.”

“These kinds of fights can never be won - even if you're the victor, you've hurt the other person, and there has to be some loss associated with that.”

“gravity, n.

I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.”

“He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.”

“Make more than dust.”