“People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there”
“Better naked and alive than decent and dead, I thought.”
“You see, that is why it is so easy to fool people with our illusions, Yue. In this world, illusions are usually much kinder than the truth.”
“I would listen to her soft voice and wonder if, somewhere deep inside, she was screaming, too.”
“Our greatest warriors,' Terayama-san said, 'believe that they are already dead. They live as if their lives are over, and so fighting holds no terror for them.'
A Suda-san looked gravely at him. 'That, Terayama-san, is one of the saddest things I have ever heard.”
“On my fourteenth birthday when the sakura was in full bloom, the men came to kill us.”
“I am so angry all the time, and so sad, and it screams inside me and never stops. Cutting is the only thing that eases me.”
“Real love is hard because it requires one to know and accept another person with all their faults.”
“How much easier life was once you learned how to lie. I had gotten into trouble by speaking out of turn, arguing and answering back so many times. Not anymore. Now I would do what I wanted, and no one would stop me.”
“Couldn't a woman be happy doing a great many things, just as a man could?”
“People trust their eyes above all else- but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there.”
“It is not like that. I am not punishing myself. The cutting makes me feel better.” “Hurting”
“And together we disappeared into the darkness swift and silent as shadows on the moon.”
“Cullen?"
"Hey, Mom."
"Can you do me a favor?" she asked in that way that implied that saying no would cause someone to die.”
“a dark-skinned boy who beckons cheers from his friends with his hands. “Go, Zeke!” one of the girls shouts.”
“She sat by the side of the road, in the snow, all bodiless and afraid, waiting for the happiness to start.”
“Not always do those who dare such divine conflict prevail. Night after night the sweat of agony may burst dark on the forehead; the supplicant may cry for mercy with that soundless voice the soul utters when its appeal is to the Invisible. "Spare my beloved," it may implore. "Heal my life's life. Rend not from me what long affection entwines with my whole nature. God of heaven, bend, hear, be clement!" And after this cry and strife the sun may rise and see him worsted. That opening morn, which used to salute him with the whisper of zephyrs, the carol of skylarks, may breathe, as its first accents, from the dear lips which colour and heat have quitted, --
"Oh! I have had a suffering night. This morning I am worse. I have tried to rise. I cannot. Dreams I am unused to have troubled me."
Then the watcher approaches the patient's pillow, and sees a new and strange moulding of the familiar features, feels at once that the insufferable moment draws nigh, knows that it is God's will his idol shall be broken, and bends his head, and subdues his soul to the sentence he cannot avert and scarce can bear.”
“Where he listened some more until I’d pretty well run it down. Then he walked me back and—” “You invite him back in and have sex,” Emma prompted. “Get your own sexy breakfast story. I felt mildly embarrassed, and really grateful, so I give him a little peck. A ‘thanks, pal’ kind of peck. The next thing I know I’m in the middle of a brain-frying, blood-pumping, jungle-drum-beating kiss.”
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