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21 " Getting into a good school wasn't winning the lottery. It was winning the right to work your ass off for the next four years. "
― Tammara Webber , Breakable (Contours of the Heart, #2)
22 " Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one's business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don't see them that way. Yet. "
23 " This ink will make your skin yours again. Maybe someday, you'll see that your skin isn't you. It's just what houses you while you're here. "
24 " I dreamed about the future because that's what people persuade you to do when you're a kid, but that's the biggest lie of all--that you can plan. Reality is, you have no fucking clue what's coming and neither do they. "
25 " Then she told me her name, which I forgot immediately, and launched into a monologue of enmity concerning the girl who'd bumped her. I didn't know either of them, and I couldn't have cared less about their blood feud, which concerned either a guy or a pair of shoes--I couldn't determine which in my state of I don't give a shit. "
26 " Everyone isn’t logical. Everything doesn’t make sense in the end. Sometimes you have to forget about explanations or excuses and leave people and places behind, because otherwise they will drag you straight down. "
27 " This girl wasn’t tapping her fingers restlessly, though. Her movements were methodical. Synchronized. Sitting far enough to the left of her to study her profile, I watched her chin bob, so subtly it was almost undetectable – and at some point, I realized that when her expression was remote and her fingers were moving, she was hearing music. She was playing music.It was the most magical thing I’d ever seen anyone do. "
28 " New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings ~ Lao Tzu. "
29 " Luck could be earned and created. It could be discovered. It could be regained. After all - I'd found this girl. I'd found my future. I'd found forgiveness. My mother would have been happy for me... "
30 " I wanted to put on earphones and plug into her and know what she was hearing when her fingers performed. "
31 " Here's to everyone who has survived something devastating-- something that shattered your self-confidence and distorted your world in one blow. Whether you were fierce in the face of it or fell to pieces or shoved it out of sight for years-- I don't care how you got here. Every day you are stronger. Every day you are healing. Every day that you survive, you are telling that event, that person, that illness, that memory: YOU DO NOT DEFINE ME. Keep on.-- Acknowledgements "
32 " The night we met –’ I’m not him. I’m not him. ‘I’m not like that guy. "
33 " The night we met –’ ‘I’m not like that guy. "