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21 " Her subway card was given to a homeless woman who had thanked her, then screeched that she was a fucking whore. "
― Karin Slaughter , Pieces of Her (Andrea Oliver, #1)
22 " The glowing screen made her feel oddly at ease. She had been without her phone or iPad all night. Andy had not realized how much time she wasted listening to Spotify or checking Instagram and Snapchat and reading blogs and doing Hogwarts house sorting quizzes until she lacked the means to access them. "
23 " She had to start making decisions rather than having life make decisions for her. "
24 " He was headstrong, and stupid, and handsome, which gave him cover for a hell of a lot of the mistakes he continually made-the same mistakes, over and over again, because why try new ones when the old ones worked so well in his favour? "
25 " You are magnificent because you are so uniquely you "
26 " It was a truth universally acknowledged that your mother was the only person in the world who could say, “Your hair looks nice,” but what you heard was, “Your hair always looks awful except for this one, brief moment in time. "
27 " You’ve fallen into the habit of feeling low. You can get used to anything, especially bad things. But the only direction now is up. You can’t fall off the floor. "
28 " Jane knew he was telling the truth, just as she knew that Nick was a surgeon when it came to transplanting his ideas onto other people’s tongues. "
29 " They had to take a page from ACT UP, the Weather Underground, the United Freedom Front, and shake these corrupt institutions to their very foundations. "
30 " If you love music—really, truly, love music—then you play it for yourself. "
31 " The shooting. It had a name now, an after that calved her life away from the before. "
32 " birth certificate and death certificate, both issued in Cook County, Illinois. Laura’s various diplomas, her birth certificate from Rhode Island, her social security card, her driver’s license. Andrea Eloise Mitchell’s record of live birth dated August 20, 1987. The deed to the Belle Isle house. Immunization records. Marriage license. Divorce decree. Car titles. Insurance cards. Bank statements. Credit card statements. "
33 " You had so many friends. "
34 " investigoogling "
35 " Was it worth it to wonder where her mother had gotten all of this money? She would be better served wondering how many unicorns were left in the forest. "
36 " The cliffhanger-change-of-subject was one of their well-worn paths to truce. "
37 " sick of floating between disaster points like an amoeba inside a petri dish. "
38 " As much as I want to make it easier for you, I know that it’ll never take unless you do it all on your own. "
39 " As perhaps the Russians would tell us, ‘When money speaks, the truth keeps silent. "
40 " Personality shots,” her roommates used to call the first drinks of the night. Liquid courage. Whatever you called it, the point was to turn off the voice in your head that reminded you of everything wrong in your life. "