“Maybe I don’t understand love because no one who has said they loved me has ever put me first. I’ve always wanted to be loved,”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
“No one gets something for nothing, we all should know better”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
“No matter how many warnings are posted, no one actually believes that online behavior can hurt their lives or the lives of others. Especially if there is a cloak of anonymity. Everyone feels shielded, safe, and invincible.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
“I was having nightmares because I’d discovered monsters that were real. Disease and the prospect of death were far scarier than any boogeyman.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
“It's been so long since I've been okay, I don't know what it feels like anymore.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
“I'm not going to just break their rules this time. I'm going to shatter them.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
“Everyone has a price, Kaylee. You just have to be willing to push until you figure out what it is.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
“Přání: Touha něco vlastnit nebo dokázat. Něco chtít.
Potřeba: Něco, co je důležité, protože je to zásadní, něco nezbytného bez čeho nemůžete žít.
CO POTŘEBUJETE?”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
“No. He won't save my brother. He doesn't love me no matter what he believes. He loves that I need him. But I don't. Not really. Because despite what I thought, what I counted on, he has never been there for me. There is no safety with him. I've always been alone. I just didn't know how isolated I was until now.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
“Because he can't imagine a time when the heavy darkness will lift.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
“Loving you is the only really good thing about me.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
“He doesn't love me no matter what he believes. He loves that I need him. But I don't. Not really. Because despite what I thought, what I counted on, he has never been there for me. There is no safety with him. I've always been alone. I just didn't know how isolated I was until now.”
― Joelle Charbonneau, quote from Need
Joelle Charbonneau
Born place: in Chicago, The United States
Born date November 4, 1974
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“A self-made man" - not of woman born but alchemized, through sheer force of will, by the man himself. This is what I want to be. I want to be a self-made woman. I want to conjure myself out of every sparkling, fast moving thing I can see. I want to be the creator of myself. I'm going to begat myself”
― Caitlin Moran, quote from How to Build a Girl
“When she was little, someone gave her some weird book called The Wife Store. It was about a very lonely man who decided that he wanted to get married. So he went to the wife store, where endless women lined enormous shelves. He picked himself a wife and bought her. She was bagged up and put in a cart. He took her home. After that, the two of them went to the children store to buy a few kids.
Petey read this book over and over. Not because she liked it, but because she kept waiting for the story to change, kept waiting for the day she'd turn the page and a woman would get to the husband store. She kept waiting for justice. But, of course, the story never changed. She never got justice. If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she wold have to add: the fact that there was no justice. But The Wife Store was still on her shelf at home, if only to remind her that there were assholes in the world who would write such things, believe such things.”
― Laura Ruby, quote from Bone Gap
“Since then, he could only ever think about his sister, one wall away. And how he hoped Deenie never did things like this. With guys like him.”
― Megan Abbott, quote from The Fever
“She’s dying?!” “What?!” “He didn’t say that!” “Let me evaluate the severity of her injuries!” “Dude, get your stupid medical bag.” “It’s not so stupid now that we need it, is it?!” “Shut the bloody hell up and get the bag!”
― A.E. Kirk, quote from Demons in Disguise
“We are always in a certain amount of pain. There is chafing somewhere, and if it isn’t in our body, then it’s in our mind. There’s an itch, all the time.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, quote from Little Star
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