February 2011
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“But to us, her suicide attempts seemed just bids for pity and sympathy: it was...”
– Linda Gray Sexton (Half in Love)
January 2011
86 posts
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“You just knew Haeden was a place that wouldn’t exist as soon as you left....”
– Cara Hoffman (So Much Pretty)
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“It was my one and only marriage proposal, unless you count the four others,...”
– Deb Olin Unferth (Revolution)
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“We had absolutely no effect on anything that happened. The only thing that...”
– Deb Olin Unferth (Revolution)
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My boyfriend and I went to join the revolution. We couldn’t find the first revolution. The second revolution hired us on and then let us go. We went to the other revolutions in the area- there were several- but every one we came to let us hang around for a few weeks but then made us leave. We ran out of money and at last we came home. I was eighteen. That’s the whole...
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“At a time when we’re being told that our needs are being met and that...”
– Emil White (Lonely: Learning to Live With Solitude)
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“Perhaps I was being insufficiently modern, but I never felt as though I could...”
– Emily White (Lonely: Learning to Live with Solitude)
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“Sometimes, even my bones resonate with the melodies of my childhood.”
– Linda Gray Sexton (Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide)
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“The less makeup she wore, the thinner she got; people would just assume she was...”
– Cara Hoffman (So Much Pretty)
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“The most mysterious part of grief is that you think you can will it away.”
– Jill Bialosky (History of a Suicide)
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“Formulating our own words about our lives translates our interior hieroglyphics...”
– Jill Bialosky (History of a Suicide)
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“One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love -...”
– Cesare Pavese
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“But what she really wanted to know was why this girl was so carefree in a world...”
– Dolen Perkins-Valdez (Wench)
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“Oliver cried lustily. If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the...”
– Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist)
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“Some religions believe that it takes a certain period of time for the soul to...”
– Jill Bialosky (History of a Suicide)
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“Conversations with chronically lonely people reveal the paradox attached to the...”
– Emily White (Lonely: Learning to Live with Solitude)
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“Laure thinks that her gratitude to God should be a direct reflection of the...”
– Suzanne Desrochers (Bride of New France)
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“Mourning, like everything else, was best done in silence.”
– Suzanne Desrochers (Bride of New France)
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“The page has been my container, my ship; my words my compass; my memory my...”
– Jill Bialosky (History of a Suicide)
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“The dialogue we have with the dead is never ending.”
– Jill Bialosky (History of a Suicide)
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“What humans called silence was really layered sound.”
– Heather Newton (Under the Mercy Trees)
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“When men cried the sound had to force its way up through muscle and thick bone....”
– Heather Newton (Under the Mercy Trees)
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“He wanted not to have to get to know her- which seemed a frightening process-...”
– Sadie Jones (Small Wars)
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“Stranger things have happened- and recently too.”
– Alex Flinn (Cloaked)
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“I suppose I could have started telling her about all the different ways in which...”
– Gary Shteyngart (Super Sad True Love Story)
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“I longed for the 740 square feet that belonged to me by law, and I rejoiced in...”
– Gary Shteyngart (Super Sad True Love Story)
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“I tried to reach over and pour it for him, as the young are supposed to serve...”
– Gary Shteyngart (Super Sad True Love Story)
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“Unlike others of her generation, she was not completely steeped in pornography,...”
– Gary Shteyngart (Super Sad True Love Story)
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a...”
– Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
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“I wondered how she would survive in the world without an ass. Everyone needs a...”
– Gary Shteyngart (Super Sad True Love Story)
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“Heavy use of a special hypoallergenic organic air freshener is encouraged at...”
– Gary Shteyngart (Super Sad True Love Story)
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“The vindictive motive had mingled itself all along with my other and better...”
– Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White)
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“If she wasn’t a princess, I’d put my arm around her, do something to...”
– Alex Flinn (Cloaked)
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“Except when the refining process of Art judiciously removes from them all...”
– Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White)
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“Because really, when you get down on your knees on the pew; you’re just...”
– Nick McDonell (Twelve)
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“You like the power you have from being sober all the time around people who are...”
– Nick McDonell (Twelve)
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“Women can resist a man’s love, a man’s fame, a man’s personal...”
– Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White)