May 2013
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“We lay there, flung like the dead onto the bed. The room was dark, but he was...”
– Jardine Libaire, “Here Kitty Kitty”
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“We partner not just for love but because we become too weak to make it alone.”
– Jardine Libaire, “Here Kitty Kitty”
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“Innocence was finite and could not be regenerated. Like spinal fluid. I knew...”
– Jardine Libaire, “Here Kitty Kitty”
April 2013
3 posts
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“How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our...”
– Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
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“We once spent four days in bed together. I never even answered the phone. It was...”
– Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
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“Her essay was written as a love letter and was completely absent of hate or envy...”
– Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diares
September 2012
2 posts
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“If you’re in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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“His kind, strong mouth said thoughtfully and deliberately: “you’re...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
August 2012
22 posts
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“You can but you can’t. It catches up with you. You love something that...”
– William Mastrosimone, “The Woolgatherer”
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“I’m losing the appetite for strangers. Once I would have focused on the...”
– Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
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“What we share, Jon and I, may be a lot like a traffic accident, but we do share...”
– Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
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“I sometimes have trouble believing in it, because it doesn’t seem like the...”
– Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
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“This is the middle of my life. I think of it as a place, like a middle of a...”
– Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
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“There is no one I would ever tell this to, except Cordelia. But which Cordelia?...”
– Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
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“I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes...”
– A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
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“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“The Buddha said suffering was caused by desire, we’d learned, and that the...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“I didn’t know what to say to her- I was caught in a love triangle with one...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn’t get it. There was a pain....”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“They couldn’t bear the idea of death being a big black nothing,...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“Suffering,” she said.”Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“You spend your whole life stuck in a labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“And I would have: I would have kept leaning toward her until it became necessary...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said,...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“She turned to me as we made our way through the darkness and said, “When...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green
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“Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just...”
– Looking For Alaska, John Green 