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1 " I underestimated your laziness.” “It’s pronounced intelligence, Kirk. "
― Abria Mattina , Wake
2 " You know, you’re kind of a badass.” “Please, if I had balls they’d be bigger than yours. "
3 " Why am I surrounded by sluts and morons? "
4 " You have a certain charm, believe it or not. That, and you feed me. "
5 " I solved world hunger.” “Yeah, right.” “Oh, ye of little faith.” “You realize that solving world hunger would mean you’d be doing something good for a change?” “Ah, but there’s the kicker: I destroyed my solutions.” He finally looks away from the window and gives me this cocky smirk. “Malevolence 101, Kirk. "
6 " I’m going to kill you, you know. "
7 " My phone buzzes in my shirt pocket, and Frank takes a step back to let me answer it. I’ve got another text from Jem.What does the breast part look like? I think I’ve got it upside-down. “The fuck?” Frank says.“He’s talking about the turkey.”“Oh. Jesus. I mean…good.”“Jem knows what human breasts look like.”Frank shudders. “I can’t deal with this,” he mutters and stalks away. "
― Abria Mattina , Love Among Pigeons
8 " I'm not invisible. I have desires. I want to be touched and held and told that I'm worth something. I am not pitiful. I am better than you can imagine. I have talents. I have successes and failures. I love my life. I sometimes feel dissatisfied with the world. I come from a place of love, not death. I am special. I matter. I can be the most interesting person in the room. I can blend in and that's okay. I'm somebody. I'm a nobody. I feel deeply and I want to be allowed to show it. I don't want to be judged. I can be judgmental. When you give me platitudes and you belittle my feelings. I'm brave. I'm scared. I'm wandering. I have plans. I will be the best me I can be. I am not who I think I am. I am not who you think I am; I am who I think you think I am, so think well of me, please. "
9 " You're bored?" she says incredulously. "You have two hands and a penis. This shouldn't be a difficult equation. "
10 " You can't love someone if you don't really know them. And if you can't love them at their darkest moments...you just can't love them, period "
11 " We only crave peace when we don't have it. When it's shattered by the chaos of that thing called life. "
12 " You want to carry some peace-making message to him?""If it'll help," she agrees."Okay. Tel him he's an absolute bastard-a scrawny, ugly, bald motherfucker who is going to die cold and alone. He'll know what it means. "
13 " You are so inconvenient to my existence. That I can't even stand to look at you. I look at myself in the mirror. And you stare back. You are me and I am you. This inconvenient existence. One living, the other dying. You consume my existence. And I let you. 'Cause I love you. "
14 " No one appreciated Jem properly, anyway. All they see is his disease. He's beautiful, and you don't have to look that closely to see it. You just have to look. "
15 " she knows how to make me feel better - when she isn't making me feel like an asshole "
