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21 " It's natural. Nature is dark and light, birth and death. Everything and its opposite. And in nature there are predators and prey. The hunters and the hunted. The heartbreakers and the heartbroken. The beautiful thing is that Nature lets us choose which we want to be, most people never make the choice though because they don't even know they have it. "
― Lynn Weingarten , The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers (The Secret Sisterhood of Heartbreakers, #1)
22 " I'm nothing if not completely inconsistent. "
― Lynn Weingarten , Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls
23 " I cranked the radio and sang loud. I needed to hear a live human voice, and I was my own best hope. "
24 " Be careful when your feelings are too strong, when you love someone too much. A heart too full is like a bomb. One day it will explode. "
― Lynn Weingarten , Bad Girls with Perfect Faces
25 " Eventually I got to know him well enough to realize this: he delighted in the small things, but also knew that in the grand scheme of the world, nothing we did or felt mattered at all. And he got how that was unbelievably terrifying, but also was the thing that made us free. "
26 " . But I also knew that when a story grabs ahold of you, it won’t let you go until it’s ready. "
27 " The more secrets you have from someone, the harder it is to look them in the eye. Now I could barely look at him at all. "
28 " There was a pause then, texting dots appeared and disappeared and reappeared and disappeared again. My heart pounded. I wondered how many heart attacks each year are caused by those little hell dots. "
29 " I am just a realistic person who is not too scared to admit that that is what all of life is: a bunch of activities we do in a row to pass the time until there is no more time for us to pass. "
30 " No one thinks the people they love are monsters. Because love is the greatest liar of all. "
31 " The faraway monster always looks different than the monster in front of you, in your arms, in your heart. When someone you cherish does something incomprehensible, you will find reasons to decide they are the exception. You will cling to the details, tell yourself, but this is different. But it never is. "
32 " I told myself I would not be sad. I would feel nothing but anger now. People act like being angry is a bad thing. Calm down, sit down, be quiet, be a good girl.Fuck. That.Anger is power. Anger is a weapon and a gift. Anger takes the pit in your stomach and makes it a black hole. And everybody watch the fuck out. "
33 " : Be careful when your feelings are too strong, when you love someone too much. A heart too full is like a bomb. One day it will explode. "
34 " Whatever looks sturdy is actually made of the thinnest glass. Whatever feels solid could, at any moment, crackle, crackle, fall down to nothing. "
35 " No matter how smart you are, you'll just never be able to imagine any of what's coming for you, not until it's right there, standing on your throat. "
36 " Because what is getting over someone if not a slow, excruciating forgetting? "
37 " No, if you run away, they never stop looking for you. You still exist, trapped in your life. But if you die..." Her voice is soft and sweet. She leans toward me. She smiles. 'Junie, you're free. "
― Lynn Weingarten
38 " In a hundred and fifty years, this entire planet will be hosting a new big party full of people and nothing we did or did not do or meant or did not mean will have mattered. "
39 " Pull and release and pull and release. But nothing was happening and I was not feeling very good. I was feeling very bad. "
40 " It’s so hard to ask for what you need. It is so goddamn embarrassing to need the things we do. "