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"Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction."
"There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody."
"Smoking had become my favorite thing in the world to do. It was like having instant comfort, no matter where or when."
"When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not."
"Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face."
"Like cubic zirconia, I only look real. I'm an imposter. The fact is, I am not like other people."
"Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium."
"Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined."
"You must never allow something that happened to you to become a morbidly treasured heirloom that you carry, show people, put back in its black velvet pouch and then tuck back into your jacket where you can keep it close to your heart."
"Are you one of those people who says on a first date, 'I'm really not in a hurry to meet somebody, I figure if it happens, it happens'? Because those are the most desperate people of all. I'm just saying this so that if you are this person, you aren't hiding it from anybody. There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody."
"But she did love him. I believe it. I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn't deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention."
"Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don’t be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it’s never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait."
"I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that."
"After I got my coffee, I leaned against a stop sign and sipped, pretending it was a normal day and I was only up this early so that I could go running and not because I'd just been on a killing spree."
"And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany."
"Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping."
"Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour."
"Red hair is great. It's rare, and therefore superior."
"Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things."
"Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones."