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1 " I am never going to make that decision for you. You are my daughter, and I will always be your sounding board and give you advice, but I can't just tell you what to do. Not like that. You are your own person, and you have to make the choice you can live with. "
― Dot Hutchison , Roses of May (The Collector, #2)
2 " Unas cuantas estarán... No bien, supongo, pero tan bien como les sea posible. Si algo intenta destruirlas, quemarán el mundo para que caiga con ellas. "
3 " Mum is very, very good at that particular look. There is nothing resting about that bitch face. "
4 " I’m constitutionally incapable of trusting people who treat their books that badly. "
5 " How do you put yourself back together when the pieces permanently lost are the only reasons anyone's looking at you? "
6 " it’s okay to not be okay. "
7 " We shouldn’t have to fix ourselves if we don’t want to. We shouldn’t have to be strong or brave or hopeful or any such bullshit. Mum has always emphatically stated that it’s okay to not be okay. We don’t owe that to anyone else. "
8 " Some people stay broken, others put themselves back together with all the sharp bits showing? "
9 " What I have is a healthy sense of spite and a determination that someday I’m going to learn how to do this thing called living. Maybe that’s as far as justice can stretch. "
10 " No matter what happens, she will never let the world break her permanently. "
11 " Scars fade. They don't disappear. It isn't right. We live with the memories; why do we have to live with the scars as well? "
12 " There is nothing resting about that bitch face. "
13 " The public steals tragedies from victims. It sounds strange, I know, but I think you may be one of the few people who’ll understand what I mean by that. These things happened to us, to our loved ones, but it hits the news and suddenly everyone with a TV or computer feels like they’re entitled to our reactions and recoveries. They’re not. It takes a while to really believe it, but you owe them nothing. "
14 " Anything tries to destroy them, they’ll burn the world to take it down with them. "
15 " The ones who’ll set the world on fire if they have to burn. They sound like my kind of people. "
16 " Acknowledging the need, rationing the impulse. "
17 " Twelve years old, Priya, after the worst days of your life, angry and scared and grieving, you threw a teddy bear at my head and told me not to be such a fucking coward. "
18 " Inara is quieter than Bliss, not shy or withdrawn, just . . . more patient, I suppose. Bliss explores a situation by lighting a match and letting it explode. Inara watches first, observes. She waits to speak until she knows what she wants to say and has a healthy guess as to how others will react to it. "
19 " Sadness and grief aren’t the same thing. It’s why they have different words. Maybe it’s a subtle distinction, but we don’t keep a word in a language if it doesn’t still have a purpose of its own. Synonyms are never exact things. "
20 " sometimes it’s the quest that holds the meaning, not the reward. "
