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Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.Lauren DeStefano
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Eve was happy for her bestie. She just wished she had a guy who would look at her the way Seth looked at her friend, eyes all starry. No, that wasn't it. Or it wasn't completely it. Eve knew there were guys at school who liked her and would give her the Seth-look if she gave them the opportunity. But she didn't want the look from any of those guys. She wanted the look she could give the look back to. She wanted to find a guy she could all-out love who would all-out love her back.Amy Meredith
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I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.Lauren DeStefano
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The world was a sick animal, a sort of huge cancerous tumour, a thing of bubbling liquids, whitish patches, dribbling pus, fantastic pimples of dead skin that grew in all directions, swelled up, became more and more like fuzzy hair. The right thing would be to go away, to vanish for ever from the face of the sun.Unknown
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Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.Maya Banks
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Trust is the strongest weapon.Lauren DeStefano
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No amount of saying ‘I love you’ and ‘I trust you’ makes it true when it isn’t.Maya Banks
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There is no darkness like that of a confined space.Lauren DeStefano
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I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.Lauren DeStefano
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Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.Lauren DeStefano
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It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.Lauren DeStefano
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Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.Lauren DeStefano
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Wanting to be happy is not stupid.Lauren DeStefano
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But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.Lauren DeStefano
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Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.Lauren DeStefano
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It's best to let her go, " he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.Lauren DeStefano
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Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.Lauren DeStefano