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Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back another layer of darkness. (Janet Fitch)
They say drugs are not the answer, but really, what is the question? View quote
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When you started thinking it was easy, you were forgetting what it cost. View quote
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That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet. View quote
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It's all I ever really wanted, that revelation. The possibility of fixed stars. View quote
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The story of her life. God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing. View quote
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No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it was in California. View quote
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She was starting to think there might be such a thing as karma - that repetition - maybe you lived through the same thing over and over until you stopped caring. Maybe eventually it got less intense, until it was just nothing. View quote
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I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare. View quote
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How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention. View quote
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I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids. (Janet Fitch)
this was the wonderful thing about strangers. they were big blank pieces of paper, you could draw watever you like on their impresionable surfaces. View quote
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How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way? View quote
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How many people ask you to come share their life? View quote
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You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem. View quote
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Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to. View quote
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The phoenix must burn to emerge. View quote
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It's such a liability to love another person. View quote
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Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind. View quote
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And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door. View quote
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Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them. (Janet Fitch)
I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand. View quote
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You were my home, Mother. I had no home but you. View quote
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What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely. View quote
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Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July. View quote
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