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Fear makes us stronger, puts us on our toes. We've got to embrace it.
Carrie Jones
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Then he smiles at me and my heart starts beating harder, which I'm ashamed to admit, but it's true. Hearts betray you like that. This is why it's perfectly acceptable to be cardiophobic, afraid of hearts.
Carrie Jones
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Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose ourselves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.
Carrie Jones
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"You were going to sacrifice yourself to save everyone else?" I cringed. Then I wimped out.
Carrie Jones
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That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.
Carrie Jones
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Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?
Carrie Jones
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Sometimes its not the dark that we are afraid of, but the absence of light.
Carrie Jones
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He likes you, Zara. He took care of you. That's what men do when they take a shine to you.
Carrie Jones
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Friedrich Nietzsche says, “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
Carrie Jones
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Pixies have to be invited in, like vampires. I read it on the Internet." "Well, there you go," I mutter. "Then it must be true.”
Carrie Jones
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Hope is a crazy thing. It will make you believe.
Carrie Jones
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I don't think we ever find anything, do we? I mean in life. We think we find things and then it turns out those things aren't what we thought.
Carrie Jones
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The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, “Aha. Of course. That's right.”
Carrie Jones
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Where'd the dog go?" I ask, sounding panicky. "That wasn't a dog, Zara," he says, words whisper strong. I jerk my head up. "What was it then? A cat? A gerbil? A geriatric hamster?
Carrie Jones
