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41 " Sometimes you get to a point where it hurts too much, and you'll do anything to get rid of the pain. Even if it means doing something that hurts someone else. "
― Brigid Kemmerer , Letters to the Lost (Letters to the Lost, #1)
42 " If we were wolves, there’d be raised hackles and cautious circling ever time we interact, but we have to do the human thing and glare. "
43 " Sometimes I think fate conspires against us. Or maybe fate conspires with us. I know you know what I mean. Don’t you feel the same about your sister? "
44 " Words are words. Dropping an f-bomb wouldn't make me an idiot any more than saying "sesquipedalian" makes someone intelligent.Both those words can easily make someone sound like a real douche bag, though. "
45 " I take another sip of my punch. It's too sweet. or maybe I feel too bitter. "
46 " Why don’t you give them something new to think about you? "
47 " One day isn't your life. It's just one day "
48 " Rev doesn’t walk around quoting Bible verses or anything—usually—but his faith is rock solid. I once asked him how he can believe in a providential god when he barely survived living with his father.He looked at me and said, “Because I did survive. "
49 " I don’t know what the point of this story is, except maybe to say that sometimes you get to a point where it hurts too much, and you’ll do anything to get rid of the pain.Even if it means doing something that hurts someone else. "
50 " I don’t know what made me ask, but I know I don’t want him to leave. Like every time life throws us together, this moment seems destined to end before I’m ready. "
51 " She craved the permanence and precision of the old-fashioned. Handwritten letters. "
52 " You lost your mother. I haven’t lost mine. Don’t you think it’s funny how people say “lost” as if they were just misplaced? But maybe it’s a different meaning of “lost,” in that you don’t know where they went. "
53 " We die and our bodies are absorbed back into the earth in some kind of biological cycle, right? And our soul (or whatever) is supposed to go on forever? Where was it before? "
54 " ¿Crees en el destino? A veces quiero creer en eso. Quiero creer que todos vamos camino a… algo, y que nuestros caminos se entrecruzan por una razón "
55 " I take another sip of my punch. It's too sweet, or maybe I feel too bitter. "