I peek up at his features, at the crooked grin i want to savor, at the color in his eyes i'd use to paint a million pictures.


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I’ve fallen for her…So hard. I’ve hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have...
TAHEREH MAFI
I've never read anything that could speak directly to my bones.
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There was something about my face,she said, that she couldn't stand. Something about my eyes, the wa...
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That traitorous bastard. The idiot who thinks he's won himself a pretty girl. He has no idea who she...
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Kenji is a walking paradox of Unflinchingly Serious Person and 12-Year-Old Boy Going Through Puberty...
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I have an extremely low threshold for disorder; it offends my very being.
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I will give no one the satisfaction of my death.
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Sir, can you hear me?" Another cry. But this time, a voice I don't detest.
"Sire, please, can y...
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There’s something simmering inside of me. Something I’ve never dared to tap into, something I’...
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I want to be someone else somewhere else with something else to fill my mind.
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Sometimes I close my eyes and paint these walls a different color. I imagine I’m wearing warm sock...
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This girl is destroying me. A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would...
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She searches me with those odd, blue-green eyes and I feel guilty so suddenly, without understanding...
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Sometimes I wish I could step outside of myself for a while. I want to leave this worn body behind, ...
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Torture is not torture when there’s any hope of relief.
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These letters are all I have left.
26 friends to tell my stories to.
26 letters are all I ...
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Dude, you ran off with the crazy chick! You ran off with the psycho girl!" he's calling after Adam. ...
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Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.
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He whispers, "You have no idea how much I've thought about you. How many times I've dreamt"-he takes...
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I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed...
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Adam stares at me so long I begin to blush. He tips my chin up so I meet his eyes. Blue blue blue bo...
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Girls are always talking about electricity in their romance, but none are too happy to actually be e...
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Killing time isn't as difficult as it sounds.

I can shoot a hundred numbers through the c...
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You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll n...
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Someone picked up the sun and pinned it to the sky again, but every day it hangs a little lower than...
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I am nothing but novocaine. I am numb, a world of nothing, all feeling and emotion gone forever. TAHEREH MAFI My voice softens. 'How old are you?'
'I'll be eleven next year.'
I grin. 'So you're...
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Hope is hugging me, holding me in its arms, wiping away my tears and telling me that today and tomor...
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The man is moody as hell.”

“I am not moody—”

“Yeah, bro.” K...
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Time goes on even when we do not.
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I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariousl...
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You can go to hell!"
"Just because I'm going to hell doesn't mean you'll ever deserve her.
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Please—please get up—and lower your voice—”
“Hell no.”
“Why no...
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Have you ever had a girlfriend, Kenji?"
"What?" He looks mortally offended. "Do I look l...
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Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me.
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Because something inside of my heart is ripping apart and it feels like fear, it tastes like panic a...
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Tell me what you want" he [Warner] says desperately. "Tell me what to do," he says, "and I'll do it.
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.. but you-with you-" Hefalters. Looks down. "How am I supposed to go back?" he asks, so quietly. "H...
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The truth," he says, "is a painful reminder of why I prefer to live among the lies.
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Twice.
Once for Adam.
Once for Warner.
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People can think whatever they like....I don't desire their validation.
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Hang tight
Hold on
Look up
Stay strong
Hang on
Hold tight
Look strong<...
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I would rather be dead, than go back to being silent and suffocated.
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All I know next are his arms, the desperate edge to his voice when he says my name, and I'm unraveli...
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You know, I can sort of control it now," I tell him, beaming. "I can moderate my strength levels." TAHEREH MAFI I'm not falling for Warner," I say quietly.
"Sure you aren't."
"I'm not," I insist. "I'm j...
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Because I was dying.
  And Warner could’ve let me die. He was angry and hurt and had ever...
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He and I would end up like water going nowhere. Water that never moves-- It's fine for a little whil...
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Back to work. And this time, focus. You’re not an ape. Don’t just throw your shit everywhere.
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It's incredible how someone can look so right and feel so wrong. Kent is a lucky bastard.
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So I take a deep breath.
Step forward.
Let go.

10 seconds and I'm trying to bre...
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At least I'm honest about being a liar
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I want to trust but it scares the skin off my bones.
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A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
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You're naked?" Kenji is suddenly studying my sheet and not bothering to be subtle about it. I flush ...
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Juliette,” he says.

“Yes?”

I can hear him breathing.

“Thank...
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