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“It seems to me that after someone sweeps across your life like a red-hot flame, peeling back the shutters that sat over your heart and your mind and setting free your sweetest dreams or your worst nightmares, after things cool down you've got two choices. You can either slip back into your old self, your old life, tucking those things you were too scared to look at back into hiding, or you can keep those parts of yourself out until you get so used to them that they don't scare you anymore and they just become a part of who you are.”
― The Book of Bright Ideas
― The Book of Bright Ideas
“I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.”
― Full Dark, No Stars
― Full Dark, No Stars
“You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.”
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“That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on”
― Cold Mountain
― Cold Mountain
“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― It
― It
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