“Always do what you're afraid to do.”
― We Were Liars
― We Were Liars
“Silence is a protective coating over pain.”
― We Were Liars
― We Were Liars
“The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.”
― We Were Liars
― We Were Liars
“You might be an intelligent person, but once you let someone else filter the world for you, you have no way to critically analyze what you’re hearing. At best, absolute best case scenario, if they blatantly contradict themselves, you can spot that. But if they take basic care to maintain an internal logical consistency, which they all do, you’ve got nothing. You’ve delegated the ability to make up your mind.”
― Lexicon
― Lexicon
“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”
― We Were Liars
― We Were Liars
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