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81 " The flyscreen door is torn at the edges. Fraying. I open it and knock on the wood. The sound rhymes with my heartbeat. "
― Markus Zusak , I Am the Messenger
82 " It's the person, Ma, not the place. If you left here, you'd have been the same anywhere else.'(...)'If I ever leave this place' - I swallow - 'I'll make sure I'm better here first. "
83 " Now I've changed things. I've left my own fingerprints on the world, no matter how small, and it's upset the equilibrium of us "
84 " Believe it or not – it takes a lot of love to hate you like this. "
85 " But sometimes the truth arrives on you, and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. "
86 " The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. "
87 " I wish I could hold up that knife and tear open the world. I’d slice it open and climb through to the next one. "
88 " I didn’t know words could be so heavy. "
89 " In a way, I wish I could be like that. You'd never worry or care about anything that really mattered. You'd be happy, in the same pitiful way someone like our friend Ritchie is. Nothing affects you, and you affect nothing. "
90 " It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence. "
91 " Are you looking at a dead man now? "
92 " Menschen sterben an gebrochenem Herzen. Sie bekommen Herzinfarkte. Und es ist das Herz, das am meisten wehtut, wenn etwas schief geht und auseinander fällt. "
93 " The violence interferes. It sticks its fingers into everything and tears it open. It all comes apart, and I loath myself for waiting this long to end it. I despise myself for taking the easy options night after night. A hatred is wound up and let go in me. It hacks at my spirit and brings it to its knees, next to me. It coughs and suffocates me as my own hatred for myself becomes overwhelming. "
94 " People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it’s the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart. "
95 " You are the epitome of normal. "
96 " We all have our duties here. We all suffer. We all endure our setbacks for the greater good of mankind. "
97 " ...ducking around twisted trees whose fingers are branches spread like cracked ceilings under gray sky. "
98 " Ljudi su ponekad prelijepi. Ne po izgledu. Ne po riječima. Već samo po onome što jesu. "
99 " Понякога хората са щастливи. Не заради това как изглеждат. Не заради това, което казват. Просто защото са каквито са. "
100 " It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. She got in, put a piece of herself inside me, and left again. In there, somewhere, I still feel it. "