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61 " But Erin has empathy, lots of it, so much it hurts sometimes, so much that other people's pain turns into her own pain and makes her completely incapable of doing anything useful for anyone. That's why it's easier to avoid it than to engage. It's easier to try to ignore it than try to comfort whoever's hurting, because usually that backfires and makes things worse. "
― Amy Reed , The Nowhere Girls
62 " Because unlike boys, girls turn inward. They hide. They adapt, even if it hurts. Because they are not screaming, people assume they do not suffer. "
63 " Smoke follows beauty. "
― Amy Reed , Beautiful
64 " Imagine everything feeling wrong. Imagine a hole in your chest the size of God. "
― Amy Reed , Clean
65 " Never in the history of the world has telling someone to calm down actually helped them calm down,” Erin says. "
66 " This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them; this is a language they know. They know what to do with`disease'. They know how to attach a doctor's medical descriptions to hope. "
67 " He backs out the door batting those eyelashes I thought were so sexy when I first met him. Now I want to pluck them out one by one. "
68 " The thing is, I like rules. They make me feel safe. The predictability of my boring life makes everything make sense. I guess that makes me a freak but I'm okay with that. You get to a certain point and you just realize there's no use in trying to pretend you're normal. "
69 " The thing is, you don't get many choices when you're stuck in a secret. The world gets so small, you learn to be grateful for whatever you can get. "
70 " I'm empty and lonely and lost and I'm starving, and there isn't enough in the whole wide world that could make me feel whole. "
― Amy Reed , Crazy
71 " She feels too much. She is a raw nerve and the world is always trying to touch her. "
72 " She had no idea there were so many different kinds of lonely. But she does not want your pity. She just wants you to understand what can happen when you’re a million kinds of lonely at once, when you find yourself among identical strangers you do not want to get to know. "
73 " Fucked-up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional. (FINE) "
74 " People don't just let you change identities, not unless there's something in it for them. "
75 " Maybe that's all love is-one person saying it because they think they're supposed to and the other person feeling to guilty to say anything else "
76 " I don't know what any of this means. All I know is I feel crazy, like I want to cry and laugh and scream at the same time. "
77 " Our bodies are not toys for you to play with. They are not pieces in a game for you to manipulate and trick. We are not notches on your bedposts. "
78 " There is nothing lonelier than fear. "
79 " I feel the ghost of his fingers inside me. "
80 " And my name sounds like flowers in his mouth. "