“I smiled at her, but she didn’t smile back. Sometimes pain likes to be alone.”
“Maybe, just maybe, the perfection of the world was found in the imperfection.”
“That's the thing about parents. They ask what you think, but they don't really care, or at least they don't care enough to let it affect the outcome.”
“Sometimes it was easier to stay and suffer for the short term than to have a permanent scar reminding you of the past.”
“He had never seemed breakable before, but in that moment, he was entirely fragile, and there was something beautiful in his sadness; something raw.”
“And then I would cry, because even though boys don’t cry, I did.”
“I think it’s funny how people say what dead people would want, as if they would know.”
“Parents always thought if they could get on your level then that allowed them secret passage into your world when in reality, they were just manipulating you the whole time.”
“Eventually, the Pat's of this world forgot about you and moved on to someone else. The worst part was that deep down inside, you knew that there was a truth to everything they said. And even if that truth wasn't bad or good, they still owned part of it. They owned a piece of you.”
“...the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...”
“Man is an angry, savage being. Sometimes faith becomes an excuse for battle. It is no real faith then. In justifying their positions in the name of God, men silence God.”
“I think this is the way love feels to people like you and me. Threatening and dangerous. We have to be in control, and love takes that away. People like us… We can't tolerate vulnerability. But despite our best efforts, sooner or later love seems to catch up with us. And then…And then we fall apart.”
“As I have said with huge wisdomosity many times, boys the world over are a bloody mystery.”
“He hunted with his groin but couldn't find her.”
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