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81 " as easily as we’d become friends with benefits we went back to being friends, without any awkwardness or hurt feelings at all. Neither of us had fallen for the other, neither of us was putting more into it than the other. "
― Dot Hutchison , The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
82 " I’d lived through bad things before coming here. "
83 " He's horrified of being his father's son, but he's also...proud? For the first time in his life, it's easy for him to see that his father is proud of him. That still means more to him than I do, and he's too scared to think of right and wrong.If there'd never been a Garden, if you'd met him at the library or something, do you think you'd love him?Honestly? I don't think I know what that kind of love is. I've seen it in a few others, but for myself? Maybe I'm just not capable of it.I can't decide if that's sad or safe.I can't think of any reason it can't be both. "
84 " Definitely not traumatized, and not shy either. "
85 " What wasn’t known was created, what wasn’t created eventually ceased to matter. It’s a form of pragmatism, I suppose. Warm, loving people who desperately need approval from others fall victim to Stockholm syndrome, while the rest of us fall to pragmatism. "
86 " Noću je Bašta bila carstvo senki i mesečine, u kom su se jasno čule sve one iluzije koje su je činile onim što jeste. "
87 " La belleza pierde su sentido cuando te rodea en exceso. "
88 " ephemeral "
89 " Someone is just dead!” said the little girl; for her old grandmother, the only person who had loved her, and who was now no more, had told her, that when a star falls, a soul ascends to God. "
90 " Why cause yourself more pain by remembering what you don’t get to have anymore. "
91 " Let’s call me a shadow child, overlooked rather than broken. I’m the teddy bear gathering dust bunnies under the bed, not the one-legged soldier. "
92 " Warm, loving people who desperately need approval from others fall victim to Stockholm syndrome, while the rest of us fall to pragmatism. "
93 " You do what’s yours to do. The rest belongs to them. "
94 " Yet if hope has flown away in a night, or in a day, or in none, is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. "
95 " Las cosas hermosas viven poco, "
96 " When the day came for me to leave, I sat on my front step with three suitcases, two boxes, and a teddy bear, the grand total of everything I owned. Neither of my parents was home. "
97 " At night the Garden was a place of shadows and moonlight, where you could more clearly hear all the illusions that went into making it what it was. "
98 " that I could go to his private kitchen en suite and pick up a knife to drive through his heart. I could have killed him then and there, but what stopped me was the thought that Avery would inherit the Garden. “Avery was all excitement when I first introduced him to the Garden. He talked about it whenever we were alone. Perhaps a father doesn’t need to know that many details about his son. But I can’t see that Desmond has done anything more than look around.” “Does that disappoint you?” I "
99 " The techs tell him the girl on the other side of the glass hasn’t said a word since they brought her in. It doesn’t surprise him at first, not with the traumas she’s been through, but watching her now from behind the one-way mirror, he starts "
100 " To Mom and Dad because you are halfway through answering the question before you realize how deeply disturbing it was and because everything else. "