"I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all."
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"When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain."
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"Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness."
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"We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late."
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"And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react."
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"Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. "I think this is it."
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"What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle."
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"We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well."
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"You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered."
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"In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies."
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"The most important things are the hardest to say"
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"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't."
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"He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility."
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"Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too."
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"It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then."
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"She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace."
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"She didn't see him at first. She was watching the dancers. Her color was high, and there were deep dimples at the corners of her mouth. She looked nine miles out of place, but he had never loved her more. This was Willa on the edge of a smile."
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"Love among the ruins... I'll tell you something, my friend: Weird love's better than no love at all."
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"Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon."
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"The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out."
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