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1 " When silence is a living thing, it can be a friend, sometimes even a comfort. "
― Dot Hutchison , A Wounded Name
2 " And promises, once made, must be kept, and if later you regret them, you should have been more careful in making them. "
3 " A promise is a rope around the neck. "
4 " Words never mean anything. Look beneath them. "
5 " If they look past the glitter, they have to see everything else, and no one wants to do that. No one wants to see the ugliness of a thing. "
6 " I took my pills, but the pills are like words, they don't always mean anything even when they should. "
7 " Love makes us liars and we call it protection. "
8 " What I've finally begun to understand is that madness allows for an appalling honesty. "
9 " Pain is only for the best when it ends. "
10 " I want someone to speak of me someday. "
11 " Sometimes love is naming the faults so they can't be forgotten. "
12 " If I weren't a ghost tied to my dead mother in the lake--if I had things I wanted to do and a person I wanted to be--I think I would hate it here. "
13 " I am a living wound upon the soul. "
14 " Dane and Horatio are the only ones who respect my decisions, who give me the space to make them, even if I never say what they are. They don't make them for me and simply assume that I'll obey, that I'll follow along with no will and no mind as I so often do. "
15 " The boys progress and advance, and the girls cling to a time that was never ours. "