“He's not the hero and he's not the enemy and he's not a god. He's just a boy. And I'm just a girl, a girl who needs to pick up her own pieces and put them back together herself.”
“I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what makes you happy,but it's not really like that, you know? It's not that simple.”
“Maybe He'll get what he deserves. Maybe Not. Maybe I'll never find it in my heart to forgive him. And maybe there's nothing wrong with that,either. All those maybes swimming around my head make me think that "maybe" could just be another word for hope.”
“I can hear him breathing on the other side of the door,breathing oddly,like,unevenly. But,no,it's not him just breathing,I realize slowly. He's crying. And I kneel there on the other side of the door that might as well be the other side of the galaxy,feeling so empty,so dead inside.”
“I don't know who I am right now. But I know who I'm not. And I like that.”
“I feel these forbidden thoughts creep in sometimes without warning. Slow thoughts that always start quietly, like whispers you're not even sure you're hearing. And then they get louder and louder until they become every sound in the entire world. Thoughts that can't be undone.
Would anyone care?
Would anyone even fucking notice?
What if one day I just wasn't here anymore?
What if one day it all just stopped?
What if? What if? What if?”
“Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.”
“And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust - too quickly ignited and too quickly extinguished - that animates him.”
“Aren't there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?”
“So now you think the augury was misinterpreted. It said you had to go get someone. It didn’t say who that someone was.”
“يجب ألا يشعر أحد بأنه مهدد أو محتقر أو مستبعد أو «ملعون» لدرجة أن يكون مضطراً لأن يواري بخجل ديانته أو لونه أو لغته أو اسمه أو أي عنصر مكوّن لهويته، لكي يتمكن من العيش وسط الآخرين. كل فرد يجب أن يكون قادراً على الاضطلاع بكل انتماء من انتماءاته و رأسه مرفوع و دون خوف و ضغينة.”
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