“I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.”
“Grace is my favourite church word. A state of being. Something you can pray for. Something God can grant. Something you can obtain. Perfection is out of reach. But grace -- grace you can reach for.”
“I do not fall. I fell so hard so long ago there is nothing left for me to land on. I just
keep falling and falling and falling.”
“The thing about hearts is that they always want to keep beating”
“I'd forgotten how much feelings hurt.”
“Three life lessons:
1.No one will see you.
2.No one will say anything.
3.No one will save you.”
“She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.”
“I thought living dead girls couldn't feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I'm not, I'm not.”
“Once upon a time, I did not live in Shady Pines. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn't know how lucky I was.”
“the thing is you can get used to anything you think you cant you want to die but you dont you cant you just are”
“Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.”
“The thing is, you can get used to anything. You think you can't, you want to die, but you don't. You won't. You just are.”
“What had been became what
was and a story only works when you know the ending.
When the people in it don’t seem like pretend. When you can think about that girl and how she was once upon a time, and see her.
When you don’t already know the story is a lie.”
“He never heard my story but he taught me it wasn’t true. It was just pretend but pretending is hard.”
“I am the living dead girl because I am too weak to die.”
“It will be over soon, finally, but the thing about hearts is that they want to keep beating. They want to keep beating.”
“This death expert said it's everything underground that makes grass so green. That dead things make the living. I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.”
“And in the end blood and tears are alike because they stop too.”
“Gracia…, esa es mi palabra favorita de la iglesia. Un estado del ser, algo por lo que puedes rezar, algo que Dios te puede conceder, algo que si se puede obtener. La perfección es inalcanzable, pero la gracia…, la gracia puede alcanzarse.”
“I’m going to fuck you during the Super Bowl, Abigail.” He bit down on my earlobe, and I sucked in a breath. “As long as you’re quiet, no one will know.”
“What I've done means no witch can ever control you like that. It's my mark, see. My brand. It warns them off. Apart from that, it don't mean much, though. Not if you don't want it to. Don't have to sit next to me. Movie if you want. Do you want to go?"
I shook my head. "I'm happy sitting here next to you."
"And I'm happy here sitting next to you. So we're both happy. What can be wrong with that?”
“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
“The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy: my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.”
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