Carol Plum-Ucci · 331 pages
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“Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?”
“Things don't have to be sane when they're normal.”
“People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.”
“People only see as far as they are able and the rest of the truth is lost on them.”
“But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.”
“You're in my personal space, so get out of it.”
“Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so.”
“I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.”
“People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive.”
“«People used to say I was weird,» he said. «I used to care. But I don't anymore. People shouldn't care, people shouldn't use words like weird once you hit junior year. Everyone's weird. That's the way I look at it.»”
“You're making it sound like it's more dangerous to have a slightly weird family, than a totally weird family.”
“...perhaps they will remember Chris Creed and they will find their tolerance, their compassion.”
“There is justice in an insanely cruel world.”
“It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much.”
“When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat.”
“You can't find your life, or your peace, in the middle of a bezillion eyes staring at you.”
“No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible.”
“Krampus found me, forced me into servitude—me, the son of Odin, a slave to a low-cast demon. I did not care, did not feel. Hollow of heart and soul, I came to believe this to be my fate, my penance, that I had been spared to bear torment not just for my own vanity and arrogance, but for that of all my forebears.”
“You have my heart, my soul, my life. I'm an empty shell without you.”
“I can't wait for that one girl to come in and kick your feet from under you. You think you have things organized, sorted. [...] When that one girl comes along, I'm going to say I told you so, and give you no bloody sympathy when you've turned into a lovesick strop.”
“So pluck up your courage and take that risk! Add another story to the book of your life. Even if it doesn’t go the way you planned or wanted, you’ll still learn from it. Adventure”
“All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.”
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