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He loved her for being so beautiful, and he hated her for it. He loved how she put shiny stuff on her lips for him, and he also reviled her for it. He wanted her to walk home alone, and he wanted to run after her and grab her up before she could take another step. - By Ann Brashares

She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living? - By Douglas Coupland, All Families are Psychotic

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is. - By Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness. - By Albert Camus, L'Étranger

For a day, just for one day,Talk about that which disturbs no oneAnd bring some peace into yourBeautiful eyes. - By The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz

You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? - By Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body