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But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.
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truth
relatable
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Sylvia Plath |
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Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside.
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dark
broken
depressing
relatable
first-sentence
sad
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Sarah J. Maas |
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But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.
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escape
reading
flawed
relatable
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Cecelia Ahern |
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"I squinted at her. "You're an adult." "You're an adult too." "But you're an older adult. You've had more practice." Mom leaned back and laughed."
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funny
relatable
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Ilona Andrews |
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What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many wonders as possible? Eat nothing but chocolate? Would you apologize for all your mistakes? Would you stand up to those you'd never had the courage to face? Would you tell your secret crush that you loved him or her? Why is it that we wait till the last minute to do the things we should be doing all along?
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truth
last-day-on-earth
relatable
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Jodi Picoult |
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And now-now I didn't know where that put me. Knee-deep in trouble seemed like a good place to start.
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love
mischievous
relatable
trouble
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Sarah J. Maas |
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You're quite tall.' Just what a girl wants to be reminded of.
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relatable
tall
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Libba Bray |
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She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes;
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motivation
relatable
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Lewis Carroll |
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Life. In all it's mundane majesty.
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well-said
relatable
wise
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J.R. Ward |
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I hate crew cuts.
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relatable
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Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child |
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Cooking's a bother.
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relatable
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Lois Lowry |
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Fur trade's damn near gone; pilgrims pourin' in over the trails me and all the others opened up. Hate to see it. Why, I seen five white people just last month. Five! Gettin' so's a body can't even be alone no more.
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relatable
introvert
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William W. Johnstone |