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November 1 - November 25, 2024
As for brains, the jury’s still out.
Home and family mean something to most people.
There are some things about my blood even I can’t deny. Temper is one of them.
Love is weakness, an exploitable flaw.
I form and execute plans.
don’t second-guess, and I rarely call myself into question.
“She talks big, but she’s made of custard.”
Don’t tell me how I feel!”
I like impressing people twice my size.
“Character, past, and environment all affect the choices we make.
I’m about two Hydra heads away from having a panic attack.
“Power corrupts the weak.”
I know what you want. You complain about it often enough.”
Listen to your heart.
arrogant and levelheaded. He’ll beat you every time.”
Secrecy isn’t the only reason I don’t talk about my past. I don’t talk about the things that have happened to me because acknowledging them plunges me into nightmares and sucks the light from the world.
Sometimes it’s better not to go back at all than to have to leave again.
I don’t want to be dependent, or beholden, or anything really.
He hits me with his hard stare. “Because then at least one of you will stay calm.”
“Maybe it made her stronger. She had to fight harder to survive.”
I was raised to fight, fight, fight.
“I hate you, too.” His lie rips through me along with the truth, searing my bones and charring my organs, especially my heart.
People with knowledge betray that knowledge, sometimes out of greed, sometimes out of malice, sometimes out of necessity.
Life has taught me something.
He makes me crazy! Why am I always the one to explode?
If being nice to you is all it takes to make you less prickly, why do I always feel like I’m talking to a hedgehog?”
These people actually like each other? What kind of family is this?
I look at him like he’s left his only bucket at the well.
Most people just want to eat or feed their families.
Happiness is a strange, frightening, fragile feeling when you’re not used to it.
