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“And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends?”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“Just because you pretend the universe doesn't have teeth doesn't mean you won't get eaten in the end.”
― Paul Russell, The Coming Storm

“They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

“The best revenge is living well without you. ”
― Joyce Carol Oates, ed.

“She wasn't in love but she would love him, if that would save her.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water

“I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it. ”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Zombie

“It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'--and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water

“Death is just the last scene of the last act.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde