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1 " You put your soul into something and people think they can pass judgment on it just like that." She snapped her fingers. "I'll never get used to the critics. "
― Sonali Dev , The Bollywood Bride (Bollywood, #2)
2 " Dancing is the real plastic surgery," Uma loved to say. "It's what keeps you young. "
3 " The last thing she wanted to dig into was herself. She wanted to bury what was insider her deeper where it would stop haunting her. "
4 " The last thing she wanted to dig into was herself. "
5 " I want you, exactly the way you are today, the way you'll be tomorrow, and fifty years from now. And I want you to want me enough to deal with whatever happens. I can't promise you'll be okay. But without you I will never be okay. And I know that without me you will never be okay either. "
6 " She wanted to bury what was inside her deeper where it would stop haunting her. "
7 " He was hungering for the fight they had never had. The one she owed him, but could never give him. "
8 " She had learned to use her silence as armor and her memories as escape from the sniggers and name-calling. "
9 " She had spent a year not talking even as everyone tried to pry words out of her. Not being able to talk was about fear, about being terrified of what might come out, of what you might expose. "
10 " How so much pain and such happiness could fit in the tiny space inside her, Ria didn’t know. "
11 " She was the kind of star who sold happy dreams. She didn't want to sell darkness. Pain was best left in the real world where it belonged, where it burrowed so deep you needed a multimillion-dollar industry to escape from it. "
12 " You want to be friends? he'd asked her. And her life had changed. "
13 " The strangest things in life were precious. Someone to tell you when you were wrong was one of them. “I "
14 " It was paranoia and it was part of her special gift of depression, along with sadness and fear. "
15 " But you know what else I figured out? That there’s more to life than chasing shit. That I didn’t have to achieve things to be someone everyone wants me to be. “Oh, "
16 " Pain was best left in the real world where it belonged, where it burrowed so deep you needed a multimillion-dollar industry to escape from it. “Babes, "
17 " When he threaded his fingers through her hair and tugged her lips to his, she had melted in his arms, crumbled into infinite pieces, and allowed every single one of them to merge into him. Her "
18 " Her eyelids had turned into screens that played her memories on a loop. "
19 " I don’t have to be here to do this, she had told herself, and then she’d let her body become whom it needed to be. Unlike "
20 " Once the tears started she didn’t know how to stop them. Words and tears—they were the twin gauges of her mental health that took over when she lost control, one drying up, the other oozing from her without consent. She "
