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161 " Nobody is going to care.”“I care.”“Too much. About too many things. "
― Krystal Sutherland , A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares
162 " I don’t hate her for what she’s become. I want to, but I can’t. I love her too much. That’s the problem. That’s what’s wrong with love. Once you love someone, no matter who they are, you’ll always let them destroy you. Every single time. "
163 " All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent "
164 " The one who painted the brightness of the galaxy to hide the darkness that lived inside him. "
165 " She couldn’t help him, didn’t know how to help him, and that killed her. Not for the first time, she wished that his injuries were more obvious. That whatever swollen, infected thing inside his head that made him feel this way could be seen, could be sliced away, could be stitched up and covered with bandage like any other wound. "
166 " How could you save people who were drowning in themselves? "
167 " Oh yes. The losing of the virginity. I’d momentarily forgotten about it. "
― Krystal Sutherland , Our Chemical Hearts
168 " What else was there to do? They were teenagers, and they were powerless, and until they were adults they had no choice but to let their destinies be bent and swayed by outside forces. "
169 " Love was a trap, a sticky trap of molasses meant to bind two people together. It was a thing that couldn’t be escaped, a weight that people strapped to their own legs before they waded into the water and wondered why they drowned. "
170 " But life was rarely full of clean and tidy resolutions. Good moments would inevitably, again, lead to bad moments, which would lead to more good moments, until there was nothing left but dust and stories. But that moment, right there, with him, that night – that was a damn good moment, and the good moments had to be remembered. "
171 " …she wondered if people really fell in love with others or if they fell in love with the best part of themselves. Love was a mirror that made our bright bits shine like stars and dulled even the harshest ugliness. We loved to love because it made us beautiful. And maybe there was nothing wrong with that.’ Maybe we deserved to be beautiful. "
172 " Dat is het probleem met liefde. Als je eenmaal van mensen houdt, ongeacht wie ze zijn, kunnen ze je steeds weer verdriet doen. "
173 " Do you think it will always be this way?”“What?”“I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?”“I don’t know. Tomorrow. "
174 " Iedereen beseft op een dag,' zei hij, 'dat zijn ouders ook maar gewoon mensen zijn. Soms goede mensen, maar soms ook niet. "
175 " You shouldn't keep the phone numbers of rapscallions who robbed you and left you for dead at bus stops, or stood you up on Valentine's Day at age eight, even if they looked like Finn from Star Wars and dressed like the Fantastic Mr. Fox and smelled like heady cologne. "
176 " I could rule this place with a small lobster army', Esther muttered to herself. 'Thirty, forty lobsters, tops, and I could be queen. "
177 " A lobster had been placed on the seat across from her, its black beady eyes locked on hers. I will kill everyone you love, it rasped in lobster-tongue. "
178 " It was you who taught me that oblivion is our reward for being human, that the very fabric of reality itself is kind enough to ensure that all our sins and silliness will be stripped away "
179 " A Kintsukuroi relationship, more beautiful for having been broken "
180 " But what do you give a girl whose wind is like the universe, when the brain inside your own head is stuck firmly on planet Earth? "