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181 " Because the truth is that if everyone's special all the time, then really, no one's special, so maybe all that's left is just to be perfect, because at least that's something you can measure. "
― Brenna Yovanoff , Paper Valentine
182 " The gap between myself and the facade of myself must be growing exponentially. The "
― Brenna Yovanoff , Places No One Knows
183 " They've called us a lot of things-- the good neighbors, the fair folk. The gray ones, the old ones, the other ones. Spirits and haunts and demons. "
― Brenna Yovanoff , The Replacement
184 " La verdad es que no nos gustan los nombres. Cuando le pones nombre a algo, le quitas parte de su poder. Se vuelve algo conocido. Nos han llamado muchísimas cosas: los buenos vecinos, los seres mágicos. Los grises, los antiguos, los otros. Espíritus y fantasmas y demonios. En Gentry nunca nos han dado un nombre. Aquí no somos nada. "
185 " Yo no sé nada de Dios (...), pero sí sé algo de la tradición. Tú y yo somos gente literal. Sea cual sea la interpretación más obvia, ésa es nuestra verdad. Cuando las iglesias antiguas proclamaron sus leyes, sentaron un precedente. Ellos creen que la tierra consagrada rechaza nuestras almas y, puesto que su convicción es tan fuerte, nuestros cuerpos sienten dolor. "
186 " When you name something, you take away some of it's power. It becomes known "
187 " this is the defining event of my life and you're treating it like it's normal. like it's nothing." He leaned back, looking up at the sk. "Well, maybe it should stop being the defining event. There's a whole lot more to an average life than something that happened before you were a year old." I knew that he was right, but it was scary. I looked away because I didn't want him to see how lonely I'd been. It was disorienting to think everything that had defined me for so long was only circumstantial. "
188 " ...the pain of loss would bet better eventually...It didn't get better, it just go different. "
― Brenna Yovanoff , The Space Between
189 " All the things are want are hard to find the words for. "
190 " The words are sleek and leaden in the ballistic chamber of my mouth. This is the poisonous part of my nature that Maribeth knows better than anyone. The part of me she has always valued most. I might look tidy and self-contained, but when the chips are down, I can be positively lethal. "
191 " Love lands in my chest with a thunk. I know I must look like every close-up shot of every lascivious camp counselor who ever walked into a barn or darkened farmhouse to receive a pitchfork to the heart. The hapless victim. The plunge and the stagger. They never know enough to just fall down. "
192 " It's so hard to love someone when you have to do it in the open. The second you expose a thing to air, it has already begun to oxidize. "