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1 " Time is not your friend. It doesn't care if you live fast or die slow, if you are or if you aren't. It was here before you arrived and it will go on after you leave. Time doesn't care who wins or who loses, if your life span is full or empty, honorable or shameful. Time is indifferent. It simply doesn't give a shit. "
― Laura Wiess , Leftovers
2 " See, guys freak out. They hit critical mass and blast nuclear, white-hot anger out over the world like walking flamethrowers. But girls freak in. They absorb the pain and bitterness and keep right on sponging it up until they drown. "
3 " It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead. "
4 " All you really have...is now. "
― Laura Wiess , How It Ends
5 " What's the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe 'some' of them have reformed, but what about the ones who haven't? Doesn't anyone realize that one 'touch', one 'time' will destroy a child's life ten times faster than a pack-a-day habit? "
― Laura Wiess , Such a Pretty Girl
6 " knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question "
7 " In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you’re flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn. "
8 " My biggest mistake is in believing there are limits to how bad it can get. "
― Laura Wiess
9 " I don't know how you say good-bye to whom and what you love. I don't know a painless way to do it, don't know the words to capture a heart so full and a longing so intense. "
10 " So I wait for him because I always have, because out of all the moments that went wrong, I think there were just as many that went right, just as much love and heat and want as hurt, disappointment, and cruelty. I want to believe there's a balance here, that out of this tragedy will come some good, and there will be a happy ending. "
11 " You told us once not to be in such a hurry to grow up, but I don't see any way we could have avoided it. There was always someone out there ready to carve away another chunk of our innocence. Maybe because theirs was already gone and they couldn't stand the sight of our ignorant happiness. Because that's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what kind of person you'll grow up to be. "
12 " How can you make someone love you when they won't? And what if that person happens to be your mother? "
― Laura Wiess , Ordinary Beauty
13 " So I leave proof of my existence behind me like a snail trail with the small hope that years of talking at me will someday soften her enough to talk with me, that she'll finally pull the knife from my chest and say yes, we are better off without him. That what happened wasn't my fault and from now on she will thrust herself between me and danger, and shout NO. "
14 " Sometimes the hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most. "
15 " That's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what kind of person you'll grow up to be. "
16 " Where is home?Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace. "
17 " Ignorance of the outcome doesn't exempt you from the consequences. "
18 " The ache starts in my chest and spreads through my veins. The abuse I can handle; it's the happiness that cripples. "
19 " We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we must not be worth protecting so we become prey and are easily picked off. Our wounded, kicked-puppy gazes attract sly predators and we sell ourselves for clearance sale prices, mistaking screwing for caring. "
20 " How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying? "
