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"Her voice sounded much cooler than she felt. Inside, her internal organs were grinding themselves into nervous pulp. Her intestines were gone. Her kidneys were disintegrating. Her stomach was wringing itself out, yanking on her trachea."
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"My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition."
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"Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier."
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Personal Development
"Worrying about things that haven't happened yet is like riding on the hood of your car-what's the point?"
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Personal Development
"Kids shouting and skidding in the playground with no idea what future Hells awaited them: boring jobs and ruinous mortgages and bad marriages and hair loss and hip replacements and lonely cups of coffee in an empty house and a colostomy bag at the hospital."
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Personal Development
"I made so many promises when I arrived here.Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm worried. Now my mind is a traitor because my thoughts crawl out of bed every morning with darting eyes and sweating palms and nervous giggles that sit in my chest, build in my chest, threaten to burst through my chest, and the pressure is tightening and tightening and tighteningLife around here isn't what I expected it to be."
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"No matter how cheerful and blameless the day's activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong - you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into."
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Personal Development
"I'm not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well."
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Personal Development
"As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleeping, lying awake, fearing a bully, fearing a cruel competition, dreading lest they cannot make good, ill of some illness they cannot comprehend, distressed by some irrational quarrel, maddened by some thwarted instinct or some suppressed perverted desire."
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Personal Development
"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."
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"Looks like somebody's got jungle fever.''That's not even the right kind of racist."
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"I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy, those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar."
Personality
"I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region."
Humor
"I know the world is flat now, I'm not going back."
Perspective
"He looked up at her and smiled crookedly, holding out a few sheets of paper. "Will you read this? i think maybe it sucks. or maybe it's awesome. it's probably awesome. Tell me it's awesome,okay? Unless it sucks."
Writing
"I'm genetically programmed to be a terrible person."
Personality
"I love you more than I hate everything else."
Emotion
"She finished getting ready with plenty of time to eat breakfast but didn't feel up to braving the dining hall; she still didn't know where it was or how it worked....In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.) Like, where does the line start? What food can you take? Where are you supposed to stand, then where are you supposed to sit? Where do you go when you're done, why is everyone watching you?... Bah."
Social
"At the end of the day -- after work, after trying to spend some sort of meaningful time with Alice and Noomi --Georgie was usually too tired to make things right with Neal before they fell asleep. So things stayed wrong."
Relationship
"She told me later that her parents had told her to steer clear of me at school. "My mum said that nobody really knew where you came from. And that you might be dangerous." "Why didn't you listen to her?" I asked. "Because nobody knew where you came from, Simon! And you might be dangerous!" "You have the worst survival instincts." "Also, I felt sorry for you," she said. "You were holding your wand backwards."
Trust
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