“This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdrawal. You’d think it would be less painful this way.”
― Cat Clarke, quote from Torn
“You have to understand that not everything in the world is black and white.”
― Cat Clarke, quote from Torn
“It's too weird to think about - how death seems to rewrite all the rules. People who never talked to each other can suddenly cry together. People who used to be close can hardly bear to be in the same room.”
― Cat Clarke, quote from Torn
“You know what they say: "Your school years are the best years of your life." To which I say, "If that's true, I might as well kill myself now.”
― Cat Clarke, quote from Torn
“The butterflies in my stomach turn into vampire bats as we pull up to the school.”
― Cat Clarke, quote from Torn
“Maybe this is how madness works. At first you're worried you're going crazy, but in the end you don't even care. You embrace it; it's the only thing you've got left. The only thing you can trust when the rest of the world has gone to shit.”
― Cat Clarke, quote from Torn
“Another prayer to a God I didn't quite believe in.”
― Cat Clarke, quote from Torn
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“Damen's The One.
Always has been.
Always will be.”
― Alyson Noel, quote from Night Star
“He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, quote from Her Fearful Symmetry
“Are we ready?”
“You have your dagger?”
“I rarely leave home without it.”
“Then to the Batcave, Sentinel.”
― Chloe Neill, quote from Hard Bitten
“How can one capture genes that behave like ghosts," Weinberg wrote, "influencing cells from behind some dark curtain?”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, quote from The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“But life had shifted its weight from one point to another, from one leg to the other, like a silent giant in the vast shadows against the ridge, and I did not feel like the person I had been when this day began, and I did not even know if that was something to be sorry for.”
― Per Petterson, quote from Out Stealing Horses
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