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The things I had were mine and some of them were broken, but they were real. They were so very far from nothing.
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...you have to think about your options, weigh the consequences before you make decisions, but the advice was so worthless when it came to the things that mattered.
Brenna Yovanoff
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The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it, and nothing changes. In the end, you’re just another part of it.
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Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.
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When you love someone, sometimes it means that they strip you down, peel you open, and you have to let them and not worry about how much it's going to hurt.
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People do that sometimes. Change.
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Her voice was like loneliness. It was regret. She sang about a past you couldn't get out of and didn't want.
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All great acts are ruled by intention. What you mean is what you get.
Brenna Yovanoff
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Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.
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On the opposite page, there was a poem. It described how beauty and truth mattered more than anything else. They were the same thing. But it didn't matter how pretty you painted the world.
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The world is full of unused corners.
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People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.
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Our lives were limitless and unknowable, not perfect, but ours.
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I didn't know how to respond to that. There was something disturbing about being responsible for partially decayed girls going swimming.
Brenna Yovanoff