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21 " Because who you are is supposed to be the easiest question in the world answer, right? "
― Jennifer Brown , Hate List
22 " We all got to be winners sometimes. But what he didn’t understand was that we all had to be losers, too. Because you can’t have one without the other. "
23 " People do it all the time--assume that they "know" what's going on in someone else's head. That's impossible. And to think it's possible is a mistake. A really big mistake. A life-ruining one if you're not careful. "
24 " One's my favorite number. The word won being the past tense of win, and we can all say at the end of the day that we won once again, can't we? Some days making it to the end of the day is quite a victory. "
25 " Being pretty isn't everything but sometimes being ugly is. "
26 " All I could really think was how much I wanted to sleep. How much I wanted to be in a different world other than the one I was in. "
27 " Oh, hell no, Romeo. "
28 " You may not have pulled the trigger, but you helped cause the tragedy. "
29 " Time's never up", she whispered, not looking at me, but at my canvas. "Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing. Of course there is. "
30 " But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again. "
― Jennifer Brown
31 " People talked. Let them talk. Nothing I could do to stop them. They knew the thousand words, but they didn't know the rest of the story. "
― Jennifer Brown , Thousand Words
32 " People hate. That's our reality. "
33 " I realized that the worst part of someone you love dying suddenly isn't the saying good-bye part. It's the part where you hope you said and did enough good stuff to make up for the bad stuff. It's the part where there are no second chances, no going back, no more opportunities to tell them how you feel about them. "
― Jennifer Brown , Torn Away
34 " I like that hot air balloon.' I pointed to the ceiling where an antique looking wooden hot air balloon hung.'Yeah, I like it too. Partly because it's cool looking, but also partly because of the irony. It weighs a ton. In this office, anything can fly. No matter what is weighing it down. Even wooden balloons. Cool, huh? "
35 " It seemed like way too much work, cleaning up my grief. "
36 " It was kind of weird because eventually they were all so busy hating each other, they forgot about hating me. "
37 " A picture's worth a thousands words but they don't tell the whole story. "
38 " I saw everyone, a shifting sea of discomfort and sadness, each person carrying his own pain, each telling her own stories, no story more or less tragic or triumphant than any other. "
39 " It's okay for someone to let you win sometimes, you know,' he said, getting all serious. 'We don't always have to be the losers, Valerie. They may want to make us feel that way, but we're not. Sometimes we get to win, too. "
40 " His eyes, searching deep into mine, felt like danger and safety all rolled into one. "
― Jennifer Brown , Bitter End