My Favorite Quotes

I put these here because where else would I keep them

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Underestimated and overprotected

Hot & Heavy

Lucy Dacus

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This won't go back to normal, if it ever was

It's been years of hoping, and I keep saying it because

'Cause I have to

Soon you'll get better

Taylor Swift

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It is May of 2020, and I do not have a brain well suited to this.

John Green

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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It's not what I asked for

Sometimes life just slips in through a back door

And carves out a person

And makes you believe it's all true

And now I've got you

And you're not what I asked for

If I'm honest I know I would give it all back

For a chance to start over

And rewrite an ending or two

For the girl that I knew

She Used To Be Mine

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It's not easy to know

I'm not anything like I used to be

She Used to Be Mine

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And don't lose the way that you dance

Around in your PJs getting ready for school

Oh, darlin', don't you ever grow up

Don't you ever grow up

Just stay this little

Oh, darlin', don't you ever grow up

Don't you ever grow up

It could stay this simple

And no one's ever burned you

Nothing's ever left you scarred

And even though you want to

Just try to never grow up

Never Grow Up

Taylor Swift

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Oh, holding my breath

Won't see you again

Something keeps me holding onto nothing

Haunted

Taylor Swift

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So I will celebrate these splinters of improvement.

I will take what I can get.

For my own well-being I have to acknowledge that maybe in her world this really is the best that my mother can do.

Taking my mother to a gay bar

Blythe Baird

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And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming

Or the moment of truth in your lies

When everything feels like the movies

Yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive

Iris

Breaking Benjamin and Diamante

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I do not cry because I have done that before and it did not make anything softer

Taking my mother to a gay bar

Blythe Baird

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If I can't relate to you anymore

Then who am I related to?

Coney Island

Taylor Swift

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I am so loosely connected

In a couple different ways

Camouflage

The Front Bottoms

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"It's okay if you're unhappy"

I would say before I leave her

Just take a look around

There's no one here that's happy either

Lonely Eyes

The Front Bottoms

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If I wake up in a house that's full of smoke

I'll panic, so call me up and tell me a joke

When I'm fully irrelevant and totally broken, damn it

Call me up and tell me a joke

Oh, shit

You're really joking at a time like this?

Goodbye

Bo Burnham

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So this is how it ends

I promise to nеver go outside again

Am I going crazy? Would I evеn know?

Am I right back where I started fourteen years ago?

Wanna guess the ending? If it ever does

I swear to God that all I've ever wanted was

A little bit of everything all of the time

A bit of everything all of the time

Apathy's a tragedy, and boredom is a crime

I'm finished playing, and I'm staying inside

Goodbye

Bo Burnham

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Are you feeling nervous? Are you having fun?

It's almost over, it's just begun

Don't overthink this, look in my eye

Don't be scared, don't be shy

Come on in, the water's fine

You say the ocean's rising like I give a shit

You say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did

You're not gonna slow it, Heaven knows you tried

Got it? Good, now get inside

Bo Burnham

All Eyes On Me

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Full agoraphobic, losing focus, cover blown

A book on getting better hand-delivered by a drone

Total disassociation, fully out your mind

Googling "derealization," hating what you find

That unapparent summer air in early fall

The quiet comprehending of the ending of it all

There it is again

That funny feeling

That funny feeling

Bo Burnham

That Funny Feeling