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“We bring up the pain in pieces so we can look at it in small bites.”Nathaniel
That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.Highlighted by 59 Kindle customers
“You feel safe enough and you believe you have enough of a support network to look at the really bad stuff, so when your life is going its best, we all have a tendency to dredge up the worst of our pain.”Highlighted by 51 Kindle customers
Just letting another human being know that you “see” them is perhaps the most important part of flirting.Highlighted by 49 Kindle customers
“We bring up the pain in pieces so we can look at it in small bites.”Highlighted by 45 Kindle customers
when you feel your most safe, most happy, is when the really painful stuff rears its head.”Highlighted by 38 Kindle customers
I needed men who were okay with being the power behind the throne, not the ass on it.Highlighted by 36 Kindle customers
Lust I trusted. Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies. Hope would keep me hoping, but lust might be a weapon I could use to divide them. Divide and conquer has been a strategy for thousands of years; there’s a reason for that.Highlighted by 23 Kindle customers
I’d put a sign above St. Louis for all the hired thugs, if I could.” “What would it say?” I asked. “Here is a bigger motherfucker than you are.”Highlighted by 21 Kindle customers
“Harm none is the rule, Ellen; bad witch, no cookie.”Highlighted by 21 Kindle customers
If it can bleed me, eat me, or fuck me, I want to write about it.” Every girl needs a hobby.Highlighted by 18 Kindle customers
On page 30 it says "I'm going to back to work, so I don't have to eat light." There was an extra "to" added into the sentence.
Preceded by Skin Trade, and followed by Bullet.
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