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“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“If I can not move heaven I shall raise Hell.”
― Cassandra Clare

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
― Euripides

“It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.”
― Stephen King, It

“Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad friends - maybe there are just friends, people who stand by you when you're hurt and who help you feel not so lonely. Maybe they're always worth being scared for, and hoping for, and living for. Maybe worth dying for too, if that's what has to be. No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.”
― Stephen King, It

“The tears dissolve the last block of ice in my throat. I feel the frozen stillness melt down through the inside of me, dripping shards of ice that vanish in a puddle of sunlight on the stained floor. Words float up

Me: "Let me tell you about it.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Of course all this happened a long time ago. And nothing like that could happen again, not in this day and age.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

“This was always going to happen.
She's been dead since the beginning.”
― Aeschylus, Aeschylus: The Oresteia