Bennett Madison Quotes

#1. She was different and the same, and I had known her insofar as you can really know anyone, which is to say not much.

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#2. I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark

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#3. We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

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#4. The world rushes through us. We are peaceful. We are as deep and black as space. Staring up at the stars, we see only our own image reflected back at us.
We are infinite and we are ravenous.

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#5. Say there's this thing you want, this thing that seems more important than everything, this thing you've been waiting for because it will make you into something else. And then you get a chance at it and it's almost as if you don't want to change. Because you'll miss the person you were before.

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#6. Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it's only yourself.

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#7. We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

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#8. Maybe this all seems like a digression or even a case of protesting too much, but the point is that I have touched a breast and that I liked it.

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#9. When is nothing special the most important thing? When it's the only thing. Where we come from, beauty is so ordinary that we don't even know we are beautiful.

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#10. And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.

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#11. The minute you think you're safe is the same minute you're fucked.

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