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“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“We are all just ghosts of the people we hoped that we were and counterfeit replicas of the people we wanted to be.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Some people appear happy on the outside and you only know they’re broken inside if you listen as well as look.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Everyone you meet is inevitably flawed... I don't avoid broken people because I think I'm better than them. I just don't like looking at my own reflection.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Some people are ghosts before they are dead.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“People think that good and bad are opposites but they're wrong, they're just mirror images of one another in broken glass.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Sometimes I feel like everyone is happier than I am, as though they’re all in on a secret I’m not privy to.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“We are all made of flesh and stars, but we all become dust in the end. Best to shine while you can.”
― Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

“Maybe wanting things is what makes me a lot. If I could just want less, I'd be the right amount of person. The amount I'm supposed to be. The not-a-lot amount. The easy-to-love amount”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age

“Nothing hurts as bad as hope being met with reality.”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age

“There’s something scary about letting go. Even if the emptiness makes room for something better. Because I don’t know what the something better is. Or if it’s coming. Maybe it won’t.”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age

“Maybe this isn’t the kind of love that deserves to exist. Maybe it’s the kind that wars start over. The kind that topples empires and never leaves the world better than it found it.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Life buries us. We get heavier and heavier as time goes on and we labor under the layers we’ve collected. Sometimes the layers make us who we are and sometimes they make us someone else entirely.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Night We Met

“Because he was human and started dying the minute he was born. Because it was always going to happen, and it was always going to hurt.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“I'd finally accepted that mystery is at the heart of love. That it's our deep yearning to know the ones we love in ways that are ultimately impossible... We will never have long enough - and that keeps us bound to them, forever chasing.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me

“You want what I once wanted, that insatiable longing for answers, the most human of urges. It’s what started my journey, too, after all. Our desire to order the unknowable, touch the unreachable, shine a light on what’s hidden—it’s universal. We’re uncomfortable with ambiguity, with living suspended in the mess of the world.”
― Ashley Winstead, This Book Will Bury Me