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21 " I still love you in my own fucked-up way. "
― Matthew Quick , The Silver Linings Playbook
22 " It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain. "
23 " In my arms is a woman who has given me a Skywatcher's Cloud Chart, a woman who knows all my secrets, a woman who knows just how messed up my mind is, how many pills I'm on, and yet she allows me to hold her anyway. There's something honest about all this, and I cannot imagine any other woman lying in the middle of a frozen soccer field with me - in the middle of a snowstorm even - impossibly hoping to see a single cloud break free of a nimbostratus. "
24 " I need you so fucking bad. "
25 " Cliff says Sylvia Plath's work is very depressing to read, and that his own daughter had recently suffered through The Bell Jar because she is taking an American literature course at Eastern High School."And you didn't complain to administration?" I asked."About what?""About your daughter being forced to read such depressing stories.""No. Of course not. Why would I?""Because the novel teaches kids to be pessimistic. No hope at the end, no silver lining. Teenagers should be taught that--""Life is hard, Pat, and children have to be told how hard life can be.""Why?""So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one's mind. "
26 " Запомни - действията ти те правят добър човек, не желанията. "
27 " There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself. "
28 " I opened up to you and you judge me "
29 " I still believe you fell into my life for a reason. "
30 " So I pull Tifanny closer, kiss the hard spot between her perfectly plucked eyebrows, and after a deep breath, I say, "I think I need you too. "
31 " If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying. "
32 " I am practicing being kind over being right. "
33 " The only way to beat my crazy was by doing something even crazier. Thank you. I love you. I knew it from the moment I saw you. I'm sorry it took me so long to catch up. "
34 " She looks sad. She looks angry. She looks different from everyone else I know—she cannot put on that happy face others wear when they know they are being watched. She doesn’t put on a face for me, which makes me trust her somehow. "
35 " Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you— if only temporarily. "
36 " When she needed help most, she was abandoned—and only when she offered help to others was she beloved. "
37 " Most people lose the ability to see silver linings even though they are always there above us almost every day. "
38 " Looking into another person's eyes for an extended period of time proved to be a powerful thing. And if you don't believe me, try it yourself. "
39 " I...have a woman in my arms who has suffered greatly and desperately needs to believe once again that she is beautiful. "
40 " When life reaches out with a moment like this, it's a sin if you don't reach back. "