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There are parts of yourself that you hate; parts that you know other people wouldn't understand.

But that's not going to help me sleep, so I pretend.
I pretend that I make the world a better place.

Lynn kept her eye to the scope, unable to look away from the path of the only bullet she had ever fired with love in her heart.

You chose to stop acknowledging a world that has treated you foully. What's saner than that?

When I say the things that don't make sense you answer me anyway. It's like having green in your shirt.

You can't change the things you've done. It's now and the here on out you've got control of.

In a world like this, you pay it forward, 'cause more than likely you didn't deserve it when you got it the first time.

But the gray ridge of the mountains that sliced through the map was a weight on her heart, an obstacle to be met.

the insane are simply people who have chosen not to participate in the world in the same manner as the majority,

Why do you always quote poetry at me when all I want is a straight answer?

I've been trying to do better about killing people," Lynn said. "Then fate puts you in my path.

Before and after the crime, not just during, in order

It's a madness so discreet that it can walk the streets and be applauded in some circles, but it is madness nonetheless.

Sometimes the loveliest places harbor the worst monsters.

Dear child, do you even know all the rage that is inside you?

Just know that there's bad men in the world, and dying fast by your mother is a better way than theirs.

Sometimes the actions of the sane make no sense.

It's a reflex, something that's been ingrained in me. Do no harm. Be nice. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

Type of men who gather up seven of themselves to attack two women in the middle of the night generally won't go back for dead friends.

Little things build up if you live with someone.

Who is your supervisor?" she asks, glancing around the room as if suddenly realizing she's the only adult here.
"God," I say.

A man who dips his sword in every well soon finds it spotted with rust,

We use the same consonant and vowel sounds but have never said them to each other before, and somehow that makes them all new again.

The dead know nothing, and the living have secrets.

Things have changed," Mother answered, her gaze drawn to the southern horizon. "So we change with them.

They found each other's hands in the dark, and an angel with chipped marble wings watched over them as they slept.

I wore high heels for the first time and they kept sticking in the mud.

I am a wolf that my sister kept in a cage, until her hand was removed.

Kiddo, you and me don't do so well in situations we can't control.'
'Don't think I care for that.

I don't want the memories that I have.

Regret was for people with nothing to defend, people who had no water.

We hear you shoot like a man."
"You heard wrong," Lynn said coldly. "I shoot like a woman.

It's not safe for me to be out, but they rattled my cage.

If you have something, someone will take it from you, and with the loss comes suffering. It's best to be beholden to nothing.

Grace had learned long ago that the true horrors of this world were other people.

To be aware of your own doom is no easy thing.

I want this, I do, but the bigness of the world ... it ... it kinda scares the shit out of me.

She likes boys, and she can get them. You were hurt by that, but it wasn't Branley who hurt you. It was Adam.

Right now life is on pause and I want it that way, because she can't slip away from me entirely until I start moving on.

You're Lucy, my little one, and that is no small thing.

I'd lost everything I had. I didn't have the heart to take from someone else." "Plus I would've sniped your ass.

Where you go, he'll go," Stebbs said.
"I know it."
"Tough caring about people, isn't it?"
... "Wouldn't trade it," she said.

Some things are too important to wait.

It all went the wrong way, like a carefully scripted scene I imagined ahead of time falling apart because nobody else knew their lines.

She's like a wild animal ready to bolt, but with nowhere to go. She knows the hurt is inside and running won't help.

There's a famous line from a poem about the ocean," Mother had finally said to end the discussion. "'Water water every where, but not a drop to drink.

Quite the opposite; my definition is too broad. I think we're all quite mad. Some of us are just more discreet about it.