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121 " Human beings could not be mended with gold seams. "
― Krystal Sutherland , Our Chemical Hearts
122 " You are like the death flowers that grow rampant in your wake: lovely to look at, intoxicating even, but get too close and you will soon learn that there is something rank beneath. That’s what beauty often is, in nature. A warning. A disguise. Do you understand? "
― Krystal Sutherland , House of Hollow
123 " didn’t follow my sister. I was my sister. I breathed when she breathed. I blinked when she blinked. I felt pain when she felt pain. If Grey was going to jump off a bridge, I was going to be there with her, holding her hand. "
124 " This seemed like such a good and noble idea ten minutes ago,” Tyler said. “I forgot that I’m not a good or noble person. "
125 " I somehow knew, in that moment, that Grace Town was a jagged piece of glass that I'd cut myself on again and again if I let myself get involved with her. That the way forward would be pockmarked by sadness and grief and jealousy. "
126 " People aren't empty vessels for you to fill up with your daydreams. "
127 " She was of average height and average build and average attractiveness, all things that should've made it easy for her to assimilate into a new high school without any of the dramatic tropes that usually inhabit such storylines. "
128 " If something was once true but not wasn’t, was it ever true? "
― Krystal Sutherland , A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares
129 " The goddess of crustaceans, our lady of hard exoskeletons. "
130 " Two souls born in the wrong century, when the world liked to make fun of people who still thought art was the most extraordinary thing humanity ever had or ever would produce.) "
131 " If I don't know who I am, how is anyone else ever supposed to? "
― Krystal Sutherland
132 " Look, fearless people are stupid, ‘cause they don’t even understand what fear is. If I was fearless, I’d jump out of a plane without a parachute, or eat your mom’s cooking again. … "
133 " Even the best people found ways to hurt the ones they loved. "
134 " One day everybody’s gonna wake up and realise their parents are human beings, just like them. Sometimes they’re good people, sometimes they’re not. "
135 " As soon as you admitted to loving someone, you suddenly had a lot to lose. You freely gave them a way to hurt you. "
136 " Was love enough? If a person could offer you nothing but broken promises and disappointment, was love enough to make up for that? "
137 " I kinda like the idea" she said, "That when we die, despite any pain or fear or embarrassment we experience during our lives, despite any heartbreak or grief, we get to be dispersed back into nothingness. It makes me feel brave, knowing that I'll get a blank slate at the end. You get a brief glimmer of consciousness... I can appreciate that that's redemption, on the grandest scale. Oblivion isn't scary; it's the closest thing to genuine absolution of sin that I can imagine "
138 " Death is not cruel, but it is insistent. "
139 " Was it so bad to hold onto something that was broken? "
140 " Everyone we let into our lives has the power to hurt us. Sometimes they will and sometimes they won’t, but that’s not a reflection of us, or our strength. Loving someone who hurts you doesn’t make you weak.”“Staying with someone who hurts you does, though. "