Abigail Haas Quotes

#1. One moment. One picture. One glimpse - that's all it takes to make someone think they know the truth.

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#2. Don't you know? There's no such thing as the truth.' Oliver yawned. 'We all walk around trapped in our own subjective consciousness, experiencing the same events through a totally different lens.

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#3. Some pieces couldn't be glued back together. Some people weren't for fixing.
Sometimes, the only thing to do was burn the whole fucking world down and start again.

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#4. Memory and imagination are only a knife edge apart, and I wonder if I'm making it all up: slipping false memories in among the real ones, just to have something to hold onto. Fools gold.

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#5. He truth is, we made each other, like we learned about in science class. Symbiosis.

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#6. Any one of us could be made to look a monster, with selective readings of our history.

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#7. Wouldn't we all look guilty, if someone searched hard enough?

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#8. I want to tell them all; the world is bigger than high school.

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#9. History is told by those who win.

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#10. You don't know what's behind that smile. You can't imagine who someone will turn out to be. We assume the sun will rise every morning just because it has done every other day, but what happens when you wake up to darkness? When you open your eyes and find, today is the one different day? I

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#11. We're all irrevocably trapped inside our own minds: just as it's impossible for anyone to truly know us, we can't begin to hope to know anyone else.

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#12. After so many years drifting, not connected to anything, I'm finally tethered. Safe and loved, in the middle.
We start senior year like kings, like nothing can ever tear us apart.
We're wrong.

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#13. I can't help my mind skipping over the here-and-now and racing on, to what might come next. Consequence and regret and other might-have-beens: plotting out every angle and scenario, knowing all along that the path I take means missing something else.

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#14. I'd never met anyone like him before. Every rule I'd ever learned, he was breaking; everything I'd been taught to hide away, he announced it out loud.

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#15. Now, for the first time, I wonder if this is how my mother felt. If cancer was her prison; the chemo treatments, torture. I understand it. I would rather die.

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#16. We're all strangers, in the end.

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#17. His eyes lingered on me, and I wondered if that was a message. Was he danger? Was I supposed to run?
I wasn't afraid.

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