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1 " If I had been standing close enough I think I might have taken the heavy golden cross from the altar and smashed it against her head, in order to delve about in the red mess of her brains to try and understand what she meant by it all. "
― Araminta Hall , Our Kind of Cruelty
2 " Everything is a game, V used to tell me; only stupid people forget that. "
3 " You should never trust people who yearn to be something other than who they are. "
4 " She doesn't know how easy it is to leave scars, how sometimes just a tiny brown oval will remain, but whenever you look at it you know why it's there. "
5 " Emptiness is such a familiar yet terrifying sensation for me, scorched into my physical memory so deep it drags me backward through time to when it wasn't in my power to feed myself. A time when I and no money, a time when I was alone even when my mother was with me. A time in which I couldn't make myself loveable and I didn't know to love. A time when it seemed as if I was never going to fill the deep all encompassing void in my soul. "
6 " Sometimes what you think you want isn’t what you actually want. Sometimes the thing that makes you really happy is the thing you least expect. "
7 " How can you love someone too much?’ She laughed. ‘In the same way you can love someone too little. It’s like the three bears’ beds, it’s very rare you get it just right. "
8 " I mean, I spend all my life behaving like it's a bloody dress rehearsal, waiting for the real bit to start. And it's such a fucking waste. "
9 " I'm Susanne,' she said to me on our first meeting, 'but call me Suzi,' which wasn't too bad until I discovered she spelled it with an i . A y would have been too cozy for Suzi, too normal, too close to who she usually is. And you should never trust people who yearn to be something other than who they are. "
10 " But my thoughts have always waited in darkened corners for me, watching for moments in which i am lulled into a false sense of security. Their favorite torture is to remind me of my solitude. "
11 " Some might say that’s not long enough to know you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, but I knew after ten minutes. Verity is quite simply the best thing that has ever happened to me. "
12 " The air felt like a kiss on your skin and there was a sense of anticipation in the atmosphere, almost as if you could feel the plants growing and the flowers blooming. "
13 " My tears were now so violent I could taste them. ‘I thought you were different. "
14 " just as vibrant as mine. ‘Was she lying?’ he asked, like a threat. ‘Did you go more than once?’ ‘No,’ I answered. ‘It was just as she said.’ ‘Shame,’ Xander said, rubbing his temples like "
15 " Happiness is so odd, don’t you think? I mean, sometimes we can mistake feelings for happiness or love, when they’re the exact opposite. "
16 " And you should never trust people who yearn to be something other than who they are. "
