“The Marines may have made me a man, but Grace made me human.”
“It’s easier to have a relationship with someone who isn’t there than someone who is.”
“Trust me to know my own feelings. Don't assume you know what's best for me.”
“Lana was good for my ego. She was good for everything. Too bad I was straight. And then there was the whole 'cousin' thing”
“Unhealthy realities can be constructed out of imaginary occurrences as a coping strategy disguised as wish fulfillment,”
“She might protest that we were just friends, but I was starting to think she liked my show of possessiveness. I’d try to keep to only small doses until I built up her tolerance for me.”
“I’m not getting married. I plan to live a life of bachelorette-hood. I’ll be eccentric, have nine cats, and wear blue eye shadow and fur in the summer,”
“there was a battered desk with its drawers open and askew, like a lady of the night with her heels kicked off and pantyhose around her ankles.”
“If you plan to be an artist you need to learn how to take criticism and stand up for your work. If you don't love it, no one will.”
“Sometimes it was hard to know where you stood with Lana. She was too busy protecting herself. If you weren't persistent, she never let you in.”
“I'm the same way," Lana admitted. "I keep picking guys who are bad bets because they do what I expect them to screw me over. That way, It's never my fault when the relationship fails.”
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost.”
“I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.”
“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
“If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.”
“Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life.
I walked away.”
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