Top 100 Ava Dellaira Quotes
#1. I felt like we were tiptoeing over a sheet of ice that could break any minute.
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#2. There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language," she said. "That's one of the reasons that we have poetry.
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#3. But you said you love me. You don't just leave after that.
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#4. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy. But on Halloween you get to become anything that you want to be
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#5. It's a testament to how much we loved you that we are still looking seventy-five years after your death. But sometimes I can't help wonder what would be different if we finally had an answer.
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#6. I think Hannah must be afraid like I get afraid, the way I did when I heard the river, the way I do when I don't even know what the shadow is, but I feel it breathing.
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#7. But we aren't transparent. If we want someone to know us, we have to tell them stuff.
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#8. I imagined your stick, washing in the waves for hundreds of years, turning to driftwood, smooth and hard like stone. I imagined a little girl finding it on a beach so many years later. Saving it on her shelf, where she put the things that made her feel like the world was magical.
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#9. I can't describe how it felt, being there right then, so close together, on the edge between who we were and who we wanted to be.
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#10. I think a lot of people want to be someone, but we are scared that if we try, we won't be as good as everyone imagines we could be.
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#11. And maybe that's what being in love does. So that a life, a person, a moment you need to keep, stays with you into infinity.
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#12. You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling.
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#13. You remind me of my first concert. The one I told you about on New Year's. You remind me of the feeling of wanting to make something.
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#14. I didn't look in the mirror this time, because I knew it would scare me out of wearing it. I
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#15. People can leave, and then they can come back. It sounds simple, like an obvious thing. But when I realized that, the truth if it seemed important.
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#16. I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter.
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#17. You wore your clothes like armor, but in your songs you opened all the way up. You were willing to expose yourself without caring what anyone thought. I wish I was more like that.
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#18. She is running from something inside her that he can't see.
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#19. But the truth is, the star was just on the sidewalk. Where people walk right over it.
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#20. Kids lose everything unless there's someone to look out for them.
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#21. Nirvana means freedom. Freedom from suffering. I guess some people would say that death is just that. So, congratulations on being free, I guess. The rest of us are still here, grappling with all that's been torn up.
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#22. There are two most important things in the world - being in danger, and being saved.
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#23. If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?
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#24. But life isn't like that. You can't be sure how it's going to come out, even if you do everything right. They turn around on you, lives do.
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#25. The numbers on the board don't mean a thing, because for the first time in forever, I have somewhere to go.
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#26. Our flushing hearts, trying to climb to the stars- how with the wrong wind, we can fall.
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#27. It's easy to feel like the bunny rabbi frozen in terror. And it's easy to feel like one of the fire balloons, at the whim of the wind, either rising up out of sight or burning down. Blow one direction or another.
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#28. You can see the city lights from there, spreading out below like stars on the ground.
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#29. When we are in love, we are both completely in danger and completely saved.
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#31. Being a rock star is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be.
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#32. Words aren't good enough for a lot of things, but we have to try.
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#33. When you set an intention, you can create transformation.
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#34. Judy, I read that you said your first memory was music. Music that fills up a home. And one day, suddenly the music could escape through a window. For the rest of your life, you had to chase it.
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#35. Now they both act around each other like you do when you know something is going to end and you've decided not to know.
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#36. She walked like she belonged in a better world,
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#37. And i still don't know how to make sense of the world. but maybe it's okay that it's bigger than what we can hold on to.
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#38. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel, or not to feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to
letting a person be what he really is.
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#39. It was a perfect first kiss, like a gust of wind that swept through me, taking my breath away and letting me breathe again all at once. A kiss to come alive in.
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#40. His eyes were like your voice - keys to a place in me that could burst open.
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#41. I think that I've been trying for a long time to feel like I am supposed to, instead of what I actually am.
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#42. I know I could have saved your ashes to put into the ocean, but I wanted you to have the journey, all the way with the currents, to the open sea. And I know that when I finally get to see the waves washing on the shore, to hear them, I will feel you there.
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#43. So maybe when we can say things, when we can write the words, when we can express how it feels, we aren't so helpless.
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#44. Do you think that everyone gets to be a star like that? Do you think that everyone gets to be seen? Gets to be loved? Gets to glow? They don't. They don't get to do it like you did. They don't get to be as beautiful as you were. And you just wanted to burn up.
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#45. You taught them that people love you for what they want to see in you, not for what you are.
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#46. I forgot for a moment to worry about how I was supposed to be. Because I was perfect right then. Everything
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#48. It wasn't fair what happened to you, either. Or what happened to her. A lot of things aren't. I guess we can either be angry about it forever or else we just have to try to make things better with what we have now.
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#49. All there is is this deep-in-my-stomach feeling of terror, and this fear that there is no really happy ending anymore.
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#50. Grownups can be such fakes, I thought. They are always acting like they are trying to help you, and like they want to take care of you, but really they just want something from you.
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#51. It's sad when everyone knows you, but no one knows you.
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#52. Maybe when we can tell the stories, however bad they are, we don't belong to them anymore. They become ours. And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to just be a character, going whichever way the story says. It's knowing that you could be the author instead.
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#53. Laurel, you couldn't have saved your sister. But, love, you've got to save yourself. Do that for me, okay? Because you are worth it.
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#54. And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to be just a character, going whichever way the story says. It's knowing you could be the author instead.
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#55. I laid the tree down on the cement and started tearing through its trunk, until it was in jagged pieces. The smell of pine was overwhelming, like the tree's heart was leaking out.
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#56. The house felt haunted, like only I understood the way all of our shadows, the ones we'd left, had seeped into the wood and stained it.
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#57. There are some things that I can't tell anyone, except the people who aren't here anymore.
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#58. What's left of what your body was - once the girl with bare shoulder blades , giggling, once the girl galloping an imaginary horse, once the girl sleeping in her sequined red dress - was now ash in a jar. Grains of bone. But then, I knew it wasn't you anymore. You were somewhere more.
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#59. I loved the feeling of being alone together in the car, like we could go anywhere we wanted. Just us.
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#60. I knew they were twins and supposed to look the same, but to me, Mark looked like nobody I'd ever seen.
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#61. After something really bad happens, the next worse thing is people feeling sorry for you about it. It's like confirmation that something is terribly wrong.
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#62. There was something between me and the world right then. I saw it like a big sheet of glass, too thick to break through. I could make new friends, but they could never know me.
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#63. I think it's like when you lose something so close to you, it's like losing yourself. That's why at the end, it's hard for her to write even. She can hardly remember how. Because she barely knows what she is anymore.
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#64. I want people to know me, but if anyone could look inside of me, if they saw that everything I feel is not what it's supposed to be, I don't know what would happen.
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#65. Because of love, of course. The more you love something, the harder it is to lose.
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#66. I feel like I am drowning in memories. Everything is too bright.
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#67. Sometimes we want our bodies to do a better job of showing the things that hurt us, the stories we keep hidden inside of us.
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#68. I wish you could tell me where you are now. I mean, I know you're dead, but I think there must be something in a human being that can't just disappear. It's dark out. You're out there. Somewhere, somewhere. I'd like to let you in.
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#69. It seemed everyone knew their place in it, but I was in the mood where I would rather be alone and look a houseplants.
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#70. I guess somethings turned out too sad even to be explained with a bases-loaded strikeout.
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#71. May, I love you with everything I am. For so long, I just wanted to be like you. But I had to figure out that I am someone too, and now I can carry you, your heart with mine, everywhere I go.
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#72. The thing about traditions is that they hold up the shape of your memory.
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#74. We do things sometimes because we feel so much inside of us, and we don't notice how it affects somebody else.
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#75. But I think the thing that takes
me the most courage is realizing that as many oceans as I
might cross, the stupid simple truth will always be on the
other side.
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#76. Because once you're afraid of one thing, you can get scared of a lot of stuff.
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#77. People love you for what they want to see in you, not for what you are. That's a sad thing to learn.
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#78. I mean, words can't be good enough for a lot of things. But, you know, I guess we have to try.
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#79. You were the first to do her harm. You were the first person to make the world dangerous for her.
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#81. You learned right away that applause sounds like love.
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#82. Maybe that's what being in love is. You just keep filling up, never getting fuller, only brighter.
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#83. They rode the tramway to the top of the mountains, watched the watermeleon-colored sunsets, and danced in Mom's little studio to Beatles songs.
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#84. Sometimes your music sounds like there's too much inside of you. Maybe even you couldn't get it all out. Maybe that's why you died. Like you exploded from the inside.
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#86. Today is a day when the world turns out to be flat.
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#88. I know that it can be hard to believe that someone loves you if you are afraid of being yourself, or if you are not exactly sure who you are. It can be hard to believe that someone won't leave.
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#89. The universe is bigger than anything that can fit into your mind.
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#90. I think that by beauty, you don't just mean something that's pretty. You mean something that makes us human.
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#91. Your family got broken when you were a kid, but then you made your own.
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#92. Sometimes when we say things, we hear silence. Or only echoes. Like screaming from inside. And that's really lonely. But that only happens when we weren't really listening. It means we weren't ready to listen yet. Because every time we speak, there is a voice. There is the world that answers back.
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#93. We are each weird in a different way, but together, that's actually normal.
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#94. Truth is beautiful, no matter what the truth is. Even if it's scary or bad. It is beauty simply because it's true. And truth is bright. Truth makes you more you.
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#95. Anyway, you're the one who doesn't want to be my boyfriend."
"How do you know?" I shrugged.
"You're not like that."
"What if you're wrong? What if I am?" "You are?" There was a moment of quiet. "Well, I am now."
"So am I,
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#96. How could she just leave me here to live without her? I miss her so much. I love her. I want her to grow up and become who she was meant to be. I wanted her to grow up with me.
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#97. And if he wants more, she'll give it. If he says, 'God means for us to do this,' she'll believe him.
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#98. I wished I were somewhere with him, instead of there. I was feeling like some kind of strangely shaped balloon whose string he was holding, and if he let go, I'd float off into the ether.
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#99. But no one else can save you, not really. Not from yourself.
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#100. You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood it suddenly, how that's what being alive means. Our own invisible plates shifting inside of our bodies, beginning to align into the people we are going to become.
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