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A great character needs trials to overcome—experiences to give them depth, to make them vulnerable, relatable, and likable. Good characters need hardships to make them strong.
The idea makes sense, but it still sucks if you’re the heroine.
“You want to know why
you’ve never been able to make me cry?” I asked. “Because you’re trying to tear down someone who’s already hit rock bottom. You can’t make me feel any worse about myself than I already do. You’re pathetic, Jason—you and all the other jerks in this school who have nothing better to do with your lives than pick on a cripple.”
She laughed and I smiled again. Her laugh was my new favorite sound in the whole world.
“true beauty comes from inside a person. If you feel beautiful, then you’ll look beautiful to others no matter what’s on the surface.”
Easter Bunny could have come down the chimney armed with machine guns and opened fire on the house, and everyone would have been less surprised.
“There are only two kinds of women in the world for me now, Kenneth: Ella and Not Ella. I’ll never be able to settle for anyone but her, and now I’ve lost her again.”
We’re Cinder and Ella, woman! We’re supposed to get our fairy-tale ending!”
Brian looked at the man and then back at me. His grin spread the entire length of his face and he said, “How about, ‘And they lived happily ever after’?”
