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I am so tired, love.I'm so very,very tired.

my lips remain shut because there will never be words for this moment.

I have a heart.", says Science."But I'm a monster", says society.

More people have died at the end of a loaded gun than from an empty stomach.

Maybe he and I really are perfect for each other.

I want to be the bird that flies away.

Oh, life had been a lonely one, but she knew how to pass the time.

Your eyes are so deep. So calm. I want to know what you're thinking.

He's a hot bath, a short breath, 5 days of summer pressed into 5 fingers writing stories on my body.

His ignorance makes him vulnerable.

I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.

It's incredible how someone can look so right and feel so wrong. Kent is a lucky bastard.

Every butterfly in the world has migrated to my stomach.

Who's Bruce Lee?" Kenji asks, horrified. "Oh my God. We can't even be friends anymore.

Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together.

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.

It's a small reminder, but it lingers, and the more I try to ignore the memory, it multiplies into a monster that can no longer be contained.

He leaves less than a foot of space between us and I'm 10 inches away from spontaneous combustion.

I am no longer afraid of fear, and I will not let it rule me.
Fear will learn to fear me.

I wanted to rupture his spleen.

You're absolutely delicious when you're angry." "Too bad my taste is poisonous for your palate.

Hope can make people do terrible things.

The darkness is like a black canvas punctured by a blunt knife, with beams of light peeking through.

Torture is not torture when there's any hope of relief.

The scientists are wrong. The world is flat. I know because I was tossed right off the edge

Hope will break your heart all over again

Switch spots with me, J. He's making me feel all goosebumpy and shit, like maybe he's about to knife me.

I wish I could love you less

Hello.
World.
You will forget me.

His silence says so much. I can almost reach out and touch the guilt growing on his shoulders.

His gaze is fixed on me: calm, unflappable; 2 buckets of river water at midnight. I'd like to cry into his eyes.

Have faith in yourself. If you don't believe you can do it, you won't.

The sky is weeping for us.

I loved making you mad," he says to me, his eyes wicked. "I love making you mad.

Very well then, Ms. Ferrars. Good luck, and godspeed. Our world is in your hands.

I wish someone would remind me how to breathe.

Tell me what you want" he [Warner] says desperately. "Tell me what to do," he says, "and I'll do it.

Is it possible to love someone and then stop loving them? I don't know I even know what love is.

Time goes on even when we do not.

Save your stupid for later!

These words are vomit.
This shaky pen is my esophagus.
This sheet of paper is my porcelain bowl.

Realization is a pendulum the size of the moon. It won't stop slamming into me.

Why must you look like the rest of us? Why do you have to be the one to change? Change the way we see. Don't change the way you are.

It was so much easier to fight for another than it was to fight for oneself.

You never asked for anything from anyone. But no one ever gave you a chance.

Because in the end it is our emotions that make us weak, not our actions.

He's standing at the front door, hands shoved casually in his pockets, no fewer than six different guns pointed at his face.

Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.

10,000 tiny particles shatter between us.

I have nine different weapons concealed on my body right now. Would you like to choose the one I use to shoot you in the face? Or should i?

I grieve nothing. I take everything.

Everyone says I talk a lot." He shrugs. "But what am I supposed to do when I have so much to say?

Healing is a delicate process. It can't be interrupted or influenced by erratic emotions.

I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away.

I close the world away. Lock it up. Turn the key so tight. Blackness buries me in its folds.

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.

It's never a good idea to believe everything you hear.

You are a monster!

I want this up and I want these down

Rip the page out of the small notebook and clutch it close, actively swallowing the hysteria tickling every broken moment in my mind.

I've never read anything that could speak directly to my bones.

The bed under my back is filled with broken clouds and freshly fallen snow; it's too soft, too comfortable.

I think if I freeze myself I can freeze the pain.

My face is in his hands and my lips are at his lips and he's kissing me and I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

I'm too ashamed to admit I'm afraid of the fall.

Love is a heartless bastard

Men with guns have never put me at ease no matter how many times they promised they were killing for good reason.

Sometimes I wish I could step outside of myself for a while. I want to leave this worn body behind, but my chains are too many, my weights too heavy.

I wondered if your eye color meant you saw the world differently. If the world saw you differently as a result.

I will give no one the satisfaction of my death.

We are hours and minutes reaching for the same second, holding hands as we spin forward into new days and the promise of something better.

I want to trust but it scares the skin off my bones.

If you're not happy, just leave. Don't cheat. Doesn't take a genius to figure that shit out. - Kenji

I've been screaming for years and no one has ever heard me.

I had been shackled, a prisoner in my own mind

I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart and
revenge
I think
has never looked so sweet.

Love, it turned out, could both hurt and heal.

They say our world used to be green. Our clouds used to be white. Our sun was always the right kind of light.

I have an extremely low threshold for disorder; it offends my very being.

I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.

We are synonyms but not the same.

Insane for your sweet, sweet love!

Aw, you trust me?"
"As long as I have a clear shot." I tighten my hold on the gun in my hand.

Then what's happening right now? Because something is happening right now and it doesn't feel okay, he says, his voice catching.

Silence has stuffed itself into every corner of this building.

I thought it was about us. About my escape. About our happily-ever-after.
And it was.
And it wasn't.

My body is a carnivorous flower, a poisonous houseplant, a loaded gun with a million triggers and he's more than ready to fire.

I know who I am" he says, " that's enough for me" -Warner-

You are magnificent. You are extraordinary.

You can go to hell!"
"Just because I'm going to hell doesn't mean you'll ever deserve her.

Death would be a welcome release from these earthly joys I've known.

My tears fall backward, burning as they singe their way down my throat.

My heart is a water balloon exploding in my chest.

Mother didn't care for the oddness of Alice; she wasn't a parent who was predisposed to liking her children. She didn't find their quirks endearing.

I'm starving my stomach is a tortured pit of starvation I'm so hungry so hungry so hungry I can't even imagine what real food must taste like.

Studies have shown that thinking and wondering lead to thoughtful decision-making. It's an epidemic.

He held you captive and managed to fall in love with you in the process.

I clung to something like hope, to a thread of maybes and possiblys and perhapses.

I'm starting to think that this situation is the exact antonym of excellent.

Stop letting everyone else tell you what's wrong and right. Stake a claim! You cower when you could conquer.