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21 " ...while detachment was enough for me to withstand hatred, extricating myself from the jaws of suffering called for enough detachment to exercise cruelty. "
― Qiu Miaojin , Notes of a Crocodile
22 " The power to construct oneself is destiny "
23 " The best way for any relationship to end is with the sentiment I wish the best for you, and I am grateful for what we once had together. "
24 " This journal from freshman year is the only thing I can give you. I’m not your everything anymore, so even though I want to love you now, all I can do is give you the old me, the one you once loved. "
25 " Listening to her talk about movies was the greatest pleasure of all, not just because of her eloquence but because the only time she shed her self-consciousness and guardedness was when she was wrapped up in her feelings about a movie. "
26 " It's the rule of animal instinct, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics- and the axis of all four. And the comma that punctuated being twenty-two. "
27 " The crocodile had talked nonstop for three straight days without sleeping. Though I was dog-tired by then, I remembered its last words: “I gotta pee! "