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"What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine."
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"I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea."

"There's no way to tell what will make someone break down in tears. There are some who will cry at the merest melancholy word, and there are some who need the longest, cruelest speech to even dampen one eyelash. There are those who will cry at any sad song but no sad book, and there are those who are immune to the most saddening newspaper articles but will weep for days over a terrible meal. People cry at silence or at violence, in a graveyard or a schoolyard."

"The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone."

"It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?"

"I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls."

"People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions."

"I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope."
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"Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?"

"Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without."

"Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is."

"People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of."

"To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her--is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil...?"

"Evil is an act, not an appetite. How many haven't wanted to slash the throat of some boor across the dining room table? Present company excepted of course. Everyone has the appetite. If you give in to it, it, that act is evil. The appetite is normal."
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