I am not good at noticing when I’m happy, except in retrospect.
Tana French, In The Woods
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I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn’t find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.
Tana French, In The Woods
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Part of me still loves. More of me doesnt.
James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
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Would it be all right? Would it be all right to go ahead and feel? Go ahead and count on something?
Toni Morrison, Beloved
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That’s all I want. Just you and me. Always.
Lauren Oliver, Delirium
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Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
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I am both worse and better than you thought.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
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Humans see what they want to see.
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
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My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.
— Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker
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I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. Probably not even real.
Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
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If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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You were a dream. Then a reality. Now a memory.
Iain Thomas, The City Rises and Falls
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It may be the wrong decision, but f*ck it, it’s mine.
Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
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I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
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Where’s the glory in repeating what others have done?
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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