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1 " She is beautiful. Magnetic, really, the kind of individual who draws people with her idiosyncratic hair and heterochromatic eyes. "
― Mary Kubica , Don't You Cry
2 " Or the fact that the rest of the world has moved on, while I'm stuck in a life of stagnancy. "
3 " Rather, she lives in the place of light sleep, where the variance between sleep and awake is often blurred. "
4 " My mind considers for one split second a world without Esther, and it makes me feel sad. "
5 " Little does she know it, but she occupies ever spare moment of my time. "
6 " my very own knight in shining armor (he just doesn't know it yet) "
7 " He is the best!!! says one review, with an overkill of exclamation points that makes me question the reviewer’s mental health and state of mind. "
8 " inveigling "
9 " Admissions like this seem a lot easier in the dark, when you don’t have to see the pitying look on someone else’s face, a look that somehow makes you feel worse when it’s supposed to make you feel better. "
10 " She’s not a kid. She’s old enough that you’d think she might be over it by now, and yet I guess you don’t ever really get over these things. That’s the kind of pain that’s more of an aching throb than a sudden sting. It goes on forever. "
11 " The kind of roommate who greets me at the door, who makes me dinner, who would bring me coffee and bagels every single day of the week if I asked her to. "
12 " Anything so that we can stop talking about me and what an utmost disappointment I am. "
13 " I've dated exactly three girls in my life, not a one that lasted for longer than two weeks. "
14 " Instead, my mother suggested I write notes to my friend-turned-archenemy, Carrie. “Jot your feelings down on paper. Tell her how you’re feeling,” she said, with the PS: “Don’t send the letters. Don’t give them to her. Keep them to yourself. But once you get your feelings down on paper, you’ll be able to move on. You’ll be able to think through your emotions. You’ll find closure. "
15 " Everything, these days, seems like it’s starting to fade. "
16 " And corpses should always be removed from a home feetfirst. Always. "
17 " The knife remains inside me, protruding from my abdomen, and at seeing the knife, I slowly smile. After the commotion is through, I'm the one who's managed to walk away with the knife. I'm the victor, for once in my life. I won. "