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Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.
Time was a thief, he stole your life away from you and the only way you could get it back was to outwit him and snatch it right back.
He thought of himself as a person made almost entirely out of weaknesses rather than strengths.
Boys took a long time to become men but daughters were women from the kickoff.
What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened—how did you live your life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a kind of strength and courage that most people didn’t have.
The only time you were safe was when you were dead.
It wasn’t that Theo believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.
All women come to an age when they’re just too old to wear their hair down, even beautiful women with beautiful hair,
She wasn’t moping. She was depressed, for God’s sake.