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1 " They slow your brain down," he said, clutching an orange bottle of pills. " They iron out all the wrinkles...Maybe all the bad stuff happens in the wrinkles, but all the good stuff does, too..." They break your brain like a horse, so it takes all your orders. I need a break that can break away, you know? I need to think. If I can't think, who am I? "
2 " They slow your brain down," he said, clutching an orange bottle of pills. " They iron out all the wrinkles...Maybe all the bad stuff happens in the wrinkles, but all the good stuff does, too..." They break your brain like a horse, so it takes all your orders. I need a brain that can break away, you know? I need to think. If I can't think, who am I? "
3 " Why’d you want to kill yourself? Didn’t you feel anything, or didn’t it hurt you?” Mandy questioned, looking puzzled. “Yes, I suppose it did, … it was strange, it was sharp, that’s all I can think of to describe it… and cold, but not cold like ice, more like… I don’t know, like something much worse, something horrible… and it seemed like the ground was falling upwards, becoming the sky… for a moment it made me consider that it was just a dream, that I was on some sort of drug, and then I remember being overjoyed to see the sky was still above me, then just really sad, really tired… and then I don’t remember much else about it,” Alecto told her, glaring straight ahead at the sky with narrowed eyes. “I don’t mind, I’m not supposed to mind, anyway. Mearth already told me that eventually I would want to be dead, that it was inevitable… still, I sometimes wish that I could have done something good for other people in my life, it might have made up for all the bad stuff I’ve done. "
4 " Happiness at work is not about eliminating all the bad stuff from your job. It’s about being happy at work even though some of these bad things are present. It’s about building your skills and your energy to fix the problems, and to create more and more positive experiences at work. "
5 " The good characters in my book are loosely based on folks I know. All the bad stuff is made up. "
― Mike Bove , Willowtree A Bruce DelReno Mystery
6 " I just realized, baby, right now, thinking of how I could take this pain away from you, I just realized that you have to feel it. You gotta make your way through all the bad stuff to get to the good. "
― Molly O'Keefe , The Truth About Him (Everything I Left Unsaid, #2)
