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"I think... sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we are imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. It can be ripped away so easily. By indifference. By death."
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"I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away."

"I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?"

"Turns out rolling your eyes in a bar when 'Land Down Under' plays is like someone belching during the Star Spangled Banner in America."

"As a young girl, I allowed my self-esteem to be determined by others' opinions, and I devoted incredible energy tuning into how everyone else felt."

"To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart."

"Some women feel the need to act like they're never scared, needy or hurt; like they're as hardened as a man. I think that's dishonest. It's ok to feel delicate sometimes. Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn't a rose at all."

"Don't touch me, I'll die if you touch me."

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"Unfortunately, fact checking has become a lost art."
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"I may not have been completely honest about that.""You? Less than truthful? I'm shocked, Nikolai. Shocked and horrified."

"I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I'd tried to bury that girl and the love she'd felt, just as I'd tried to bury my power. But I wouldn't make that mistake again."

"Jesper: "If Pekka Rollins kills us all, I'm going to get Wylan's ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.Kaz: "I'll just hire Matthias' ghost to kick your ghost's ass.Matthias: "My ghost won't associate with your ghost."

"The person she liked best didn't like her enough to want more of her, and she didn't want to pretend that wasn't awful."

"This goes to show you that sometimes the unseen is not to be feared and that those meant to love us most are not always ones who do."

"She lived in happy solitude, and grew old, and never worried when her beauty faded, for in her reflection she always saw a free woman."
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