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1 " Do what you have to do to be happy, okay? No one else is going to do it for you. "
― Mariana Zapata , The Best Thing
2 " The soft yellow ball was honestly one of the most thoughtful gifts anyone had ever given me. It was a decent replacement for the nut sacks I wished I could squeeze the hell out of when someone pissed me off. "
3 " It changes the way you see things and people when you get teased for being yourself, like you’ve got some other choice in the matter. "
4 " It’s easy for people to love you when you’re doing things for them, when they get something out of it. But it isn’t so easy to find people who will still love you when you’re down and need help getting up. That’s when you really find out who’s with you for the right reasons. "
5 " We outgrow clothes the same way we outgrow people, "
6 " You made your choices in life, and you had to deal with them. There weren’t take backs. You could never and should never expect a second chance. "
7 " We outgrow clothes the same way we outgrow people, Len. We change inside the same way we do outside. "
8 " Life’s not easy but hold on to the things that matter, even if you have to use some fingernails. "
9 " You do whatever you have to do for the people you love. "
10 " When life throws bad shit at you, you dodge it and throw whatever you can right back. "
11 " when you love someone, you threw them up into the sky to fly, Dimples. You don’t just open your hand to let them go. Because you know who they are, and they know who you are, and that’s all that matters. You don’t hold back someone you love. "
12 " You did something and you could regret it, or you could not do something and regret it. You never knew which way it would go. Everything in life is a gamble. "
13 " And it’s more fun to be nice when you know someone doesn’t like you since it’ll just make them feel like they’re the bad person, okay? Mind Games 101. You taught that class. "
14 " And you are all those things, they’re just mixed in with all those other traits I like even more. "
15 " everyone has a threshold for what they’re willing to forgive. "
16 " I was not going to waste my life being pissed off at someone. I had better shit to do. People didn’t give enough credit to what not giving a fuck could do for you. It was freedom. "
17 " if you love something or someone, you don’t ever give up on it. Life’s not easy but hold on to the things that matter, even if you have to use some fingernails. I told one of you once that you don’t throw away the things that matter”Excerpt FromThe Best ThingZapata, MarianaThis material may be protected by copyright. "
18 " If you don’t have anything nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything at all, Luna would tell me. But she had never warned me how fucking hard it was to live up to that. "
19 " I knew it was a shitty idea to click on the link on my home screen. But I did it anyway. Because as I’d learned over the course of my life, I liked pissing myself off. "
20 " You didn’t find real things by looking, usually. "