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"And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can."
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"Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life."
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"I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely."
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"So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not."
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"I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it."
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"I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy."
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"And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can."
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"Are we turning back? Because if you're just trying to solve my post-traumatic stress problem by exposing me to rock sharks until I'm desensitized, trust me-that ship has sailed."
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"The problems are here to stay. We need to find a way to deal with them."
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"To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver."
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"Some of us have resolved to escape into drunkenness before the sleep takes us."
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"Be a Samurai.Because you just never know what's behind the freaking sky."
Courage
"Vengeance ought to be spoken through gritted teeth, spittle flying, the cords of one's soul so entangled in it that you can't let it go, even if you try. If you feel it--if you really feel it--then you speak it like it's a still-beating heart clenched in your fist and there's blood running down your arm, dripping off your elbow, and you can't let go."
Anger
"Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels."
Sadness
"He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did."
Bravery
"And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can."
Coping
"The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him."
Observation
"My tiny scary friend is coming."
Suspense
"It's never too soon to worry. Worry spurs preparation."
Preparation
"It didn't matter; by now she knew she loved him in any skin. In her book there was another tale - one of the original eighteen - of a dragon who had a human wife, and Neve had never understood it before, at least from the wifes point of view. Love was love. But she hoped that he was not a dragon."
Romance
"Some kinds of misery make you hate the world, but some kinds make you hate yourself, and--butter and cheese not withstanding--Neve had no question that Spear was the latter."
Misery
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