“My loneliness tasted like pennies.”
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“One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.”
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“she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.”
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“Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.”
“I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.”
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“It's not that he was going nowhere, it's that he'd already arrived.”
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“without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.”
“I felt beautiful but also interrupted. I wasn't used to being so complicated.”
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“We have no home, she told me. I am your home.”
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“Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.”
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“She’s never where she is,' I said. 'She’s only inside her head.”
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“She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.”
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“What is real is always worth it.”
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“You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you”
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“And if there is no god? You act as if there is, and it's the same thing.”
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“It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.”
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“This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster.”
“We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.”
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“Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.”
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“No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.”
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