Thoughts-n-Quotes

I post quotes from whatever book that I happen to be reading at the time.

[daily-meme]

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“Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“Death is only the easy way out if you are the one who dies.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“Never throw away a single second. And never forget about the people who love you. There is tremendous value in that.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“The details of death are the fabric nightmares are sewn from.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“Love, I thought, was the biggest fraud of all. Sleight of hand, designed to hold you, cage you, when flight suited you well.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“Other people have always seen me as strong. That was a lie. A charade. A disguise I wore to keep me safe in public.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“If you will only look past my clumsy attempts at love, sound the depths of my emotion in my heart, what haven you might find in the soft surf of my harbor.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“I don’t get why he loves me, but even if I did, I wouldn’t let myself love him back because love is like summer. It only lasts so long.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“Some people say love is fire—flame fanned into inferno. A raging that all too predictably burns through the years, fades into smoldering, burns down to ash, soot that cannot be rekindled.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“Sick to your stomach—gas churning in an empty well. That’s how it feels with her gone.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“I’m not a savior. And even he, who so many believe was the Savior, was strung up to die. Maybe it’s time to save myself.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“Fighting depression is hard when you have no reason to fight it. Why pretend everything is fine when everything pretty much sucks?”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“It’s name is paranoia, and it spreads like an oil spill, there in the shadows, chokes your humanity. Threatens your soul.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“Tying the knot means slipping a noose around love and choking it to death.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“Is this always what happens when someone you love leaves? They fade away, blur into memory like childhood fantasies?”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins

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“No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. No one teaches you how to say good-bye.”

-‘Perfect’ Ellen Hopkins