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1 " I don't carry a grudge but I have a functioning memory. "
― Brigid Kemmerer , Call It What You Want
2 " Suddenly, I wish I had another thirty minutes of running in me. I wish I could keep running forever. Away from here.I can't. And I can't leave my mother.I turn the music down and head for home. "
3 " One choice doesn’t determine your whole future. "
4 " Other people don’t have the challenges we have... but that doesn’t mean they don’t have their own. "
5 " When you've lost everything,' he says, 'sometimes you don't see anything wrong with taking a little back. "
6 " It was nice to sit with someone who doesn't share my DNA and doesn't want to rag on me about my father's misdeeds. It was nice to go somewhere. To do something.My life has collapsed to the point where a ninety-nine-cent coffee with a stranger is meaningful. "
7 " One choice doesn't determine your whole future. "
8 " One mistake doesn’t define you. "
9 " I’m not lost. I want to do the right thing.”“Most of us do. The problem is that it doesn’t always look the same for all of us. "
10 " Other people don't have the challenges that we have, Owen. But that doesn't mean they don't have their own. "
11 " I don’t want to talk to anyone, yet I’m also desperate for someone to talk to. "
12 " I think desperate people do desperate things. "
13 " The best thing about sleep is that I don’t need to think about anything. "
14 " It’s stupid, but I didn’t realise how lonely I was until I wasn’t. "
15 " Just because people treat you like crap doesn’t mean you get to take whatever you want from them. "
16 " But it took me a long time to forgive them. To reconcile that the good memories didn’t vanish just because there were bad ones in there, too. All those memories are a part of who I am. The good ones and the bad ones. "
17 " Nothing is black and white. Nothing is simple and straightforward and easy. "
18 " Are you a lost girl?”‘As soon as she asks the question, I realise I was. I was a lost girl. Lost in everyone’s impressions of me. Lost by letting their impressions replace the ones I have of myself. "
19 " People love finding the weak link that makes them feel superior. "
20 " I guess you can be wrong about people.”“I guess you can. "