"That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of telling which is which."
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"It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time."
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"It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed."
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"You should only fall in love with people who will fall in love with you back."
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"For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past - you know who you are. For the people who will infect me in the future - I can't wait to see who you'll be. And in both cases: Thank you."
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"I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was beating away all of the seconds of my life, ticking them off one by one until my time was up; for letting the thread between us stretch so far and so thin that the moment it was severed for good they didn't even feel it."
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"I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took"
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"The old Lena is dead."
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"Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar?"
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"That's when you really lose people, you know.When the pain passes."
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"Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom. The way to find happiness is through the cure. Therefore, it is only through the cure that one finds freedom."
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"Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are going to turn your hair to gray. Mary keep your oars a-steady Sail away on the rising flood Keep your candle at the ready Red tides can't be told from blood. - "Miss Mary" (a common child's clapping game, dating from the time of the blitz), from Pattycake and Beyond: A History of Play"
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"He looked at me like I was beautiful."
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"I need to live my life in the light of their deaths. I need to live."
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"Every choice is limited. That's life."
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"They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie."
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"Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it."
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"I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop"
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"I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don't come."
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"Popularity's a weird thing. You can't really define it, and it's not cool to talk about, but you know it when you see it. Like a lazy eye, or porn."
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