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1 " I should curl up in a ball and cry. Instead i think about everything in the whole entire world that makes me angry - There is a lot, oh, there is a lot - and I start singing Justin Bieber at the top of my lungs. "
― Kiersten White , Mind Games (Mind Games, #1)
2 " Silly. Dark isn’t scary. Dark is safe.”“Why?” “I live in the dark all the time. But when it’s dark outside everyone has to be there, too. And if you can’t see someone, they can’t see you, either.” She sniffles a few times. “So, it’s like I’m hiding in the dark?”“Yes. You’re the secret when it’s dark. Dark is safe. "
3 " Everyone here is insane. I am the insanest of the insane. "
4 " You’re crazy,” he hisses. “Too true. "
5 " I am so filled with wrong I don’t remember what right is. "
6 " I don’t want to think about things like normal and safe, things I can’t have. "
7 " My bed is massive (I drown in it, and it doesn’t matter how big the bed is, my nightmares more than fill it) "
8 " Pretending is another way of lying, and I am so good at both. "
9 " I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat "
10 " - "Control what an interesting word for you to be dwelling on"- "I have other words" I scream the F-Word in my head, over and over again. "
11 " I’ll take care of her.” “She’s not yours to take care of. "
12 " I’m your big sister. I don’t have to see anything to know James is always something bad.” Fia snorts. “You wouldn’t think so if you could look at him. "
13 " Planning is not my friend. Impulse is. "
14 " Their smiles are lies.Most smiles are. "
15 " I am the ocean we lived on for two months. I am empty. I am nothing. "
16 " I could have kisses like that for the rest of my life. Kisses that don't know who I am. Kisses that make me feel more and less than what I am. But my finger tap tap taps on my leg and reminds me that I am not who Adam thinks I am, and it makes me want to cry. It's not that I don't deserve his kiss. It's that the person I am can never really share a life, a soul, with the person he is. "
17 " If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does anyone give a crap?" I mutter. "
18 " In this room I have picked which gun was unloaded out of ten options. And then they pulled the trigger on me. I have picked stocks that went on to skyrocket. I have picked which pencil I would shove into Ms. Robertson’s ear until she kicked me out for thinking about it. "
19 " I hereby vow to take any and all death threats at face value, unless you are, in fact, trying to flirt with me, in which case please threaten to bash my brains in while winking, like so "
20 " I turn and walk out, knowing exactly how many steps will take me away from that monster. Once again wishing I were Fia, Fia who could have killed him with her bare hands.Fia who is impossible broken because she can do just that. "
