Aryn Kyle Quotes

#1. Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.

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#2. But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

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#3. I had waited for the tears to stop before I called him, waited until my whole body was empty and dry, hard as a fist. But now I felt the sadness rising again in my chest.

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#4. I just meant that dreams are sort of an opportunity. You can confront danger without actually being in jeopardy."
"Oh," I said. Opportunity was a good thing, a chance, a promise--the gift of drowning every night and never being dead.

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#5. At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent.

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#6. Marriage," she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

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#7. Love. It is a word that means nothing and everything at the same time.

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#8. Today will just be something else that they don't talk about, something else that probably never happened.

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#9. This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn't meant to be yours, it won't be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it.

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#10. You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

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#11. I believe in divinity. Like the goodness that works through people. The God inside humanity.

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#12. That was the real bitch about time: Everything true would become false, if only you waited long enough.

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#13. Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it's everything.

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#14. They will stare. They will stand to the side and watch her be alone.

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#15. We would pay the bills. We would pretend to be high-class. This was compromise. This, I guessed, was business.

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#16. My whole body felt weak and hollow, like in one moment it might forget how to move, how to stand, how to breathe.

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#17. What do you know about being sad?'
'I know you don't need a reason.

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#18. It's like, when someone asks you how you are and even though you want to say that you feel like shit, that you're miserable, that you cry until you gag and spend most of your time imagining ways to kill yourself, instead you just say, 'Fine, thanks.

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#19. And in that foggy place between sleep and waking, he could have been anyone. That was what she liked most about him: In the darkness, he became whomever she wanted.

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#20. That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

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#21. In my room, I looked around at all the pieces of my life, neat and tidy on their little shelves, my clothes and books and telephones, my shoes and hair barrettes, and tried to care about them. Mine, mine, mine. But they were only things, things that could have belonged to anyone.

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#22. The whole wide world was just a big pile of strangers, thinking all the time about everything they were missing.

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