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61 " ...The look in his eyes was devastating, because I saw hatred swirling around in his pupils. "
― Matthew Quick , Every Exquisite Thing
62 " The words stopped and the spinning feeling in my head, if only because it felt as though someone had had all my thoughts before, which was comforting, like knowing that people had survived a tornado using the same basement you were currently locked away in... "
63 " They can't make me into a joiner without my permission. "
64 " And I wondered if that was the problem with literature - it made sense only in theoretical situations and didn't often help in real life, where it took a hell of a lot more courage to live than to turn pages all alone, hidden away from the world in a corner or a bed or under a tree. "
65 " Sometimes it's hard for me to hang on to the horse or pole. And I want to bite just about every fucking hand that extends toward me because I can no longer tell which are good and which are bad. Maybe like there in't good and bad anymore. "
66 " But the sad truth was that they were no better than we were, and more often than not, they were much worse because they had been here on this planet longer than we had and therefore were able to collect more vices, worries, and sadness. "
67 " Every day, the pretty boys ask how I'm doing and if anyone is messing around with me - as if anyone else would torture me. It's kind of weird and I think I liked it better when they were just mean to me all the time, as strange as that sounds. Their being nice is like eternally having a boa constrictor around your neck and pretending that it will never choke you to death. "
68 " Wild optimism puts a big target on your forehead. "
69 " People enter our lives for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. "
70 " I tend to think of love as a woman. The male version - Cupid, for instance - always seems to dumb to me. Shooting arrows like love is a weapon. "
71 " I tend to think of love as a woman. The male version - Cupid, for instance - always seems so dumb to me. Shooting arrows like love is a weapon. "
72 " He [Mr. Graves] was always using the word weirdo to describe himself and people he liked. He said that all the great writers were 'weirdos,' too - that our best artists, musicians, and thinkers were first labeled weird in high school or 'when they were young.' That was 'the price of admission. "
73 " Everyone who ever did anything revolutionary was just an eighteen-year-old kid once. George Washington, Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela... Social status is just a social construct, the primary function of which is to keep regular people oppressed and rebels in line. "
74 " You can always tell when an old person has no idea what you are talking about, because they mess up the wording almost as if they're trying to defeat the thing you are discussing by refusing to name it correctly. "
75 " High school students die all over the country - hell, all over the world - every day, and the world keeps spinning. What does it matter? What do any of us matter? What is the point? "
76 " There are no good answers for such tragedies and you'll drive yourself mad if you try to find what isn't there. "
77 " Everyone hopes it will be easier for kids. Maybe the goal in America is to have an easy life, and so we find it too disgraceful to tell the truth. "
78 " The way he said "an Internet" made me believe he was telling the truth. You can always tell when an old person has no idea what you are talking about, because they mess up the wording almost as if they are trying to defeat the thing you are discussing by refusing to name it correctly. I call this technique senior-citizen word voodoo. "
79 " Antigone - as you will see when you read the play - was a woman who wouldn't yield to men. She did what she thought was right. And I admire Antigone a great deal. But the play is largely about pride and what happens when people are stubborn - refuse to bend. It ends in tragedy, as tragedies often do. "
80 " Weird, lonely people need each other. "