Erica O'Rourke Quotes

#1. Every person is the result of an entire universe's worth of choices - moments

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#2. We don't need an alarm system. We barely have anythings worth stealing."
"Do you want me moving in?"
"NO!"
"then you're getting an alarm.

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#3. In the end, though, it doesn't really matter. I think the key is to accept who you are, however you got that way. To embrace it, without reservations or hesitations. Because once you own who you are, it's not a limitation anymore. It's a source of strenght.
- Mo

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#4. Given a choice, it seems like pity would be easier to bear than mockery, but that's not true. Mockery hardens defenses; pity slips through, finds the softest places you have, and slices to the bone. Pity will break you, every time.

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#5. How's Cujo?"
"He's good. Thank you for saving him." ...
"You asked," he said with a shrug.

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#6. Justice is about making them pay for [her] pain. Revenge is making them pay for yours.

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#7. The guy from the bar appeared silently at Uncle Billy's side, his expression cool and steady. He nodded at me once, and turned to my uncle. Seeing him face-to-face,I knew, absolutely, he wasn't just a regular customer. He was a complicationa. A big one. Mo, meet Colin Donnelly. Your bodyguard.

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#8. There's a danger in being drawn to something that's not real, in giving yourself to something you can never be a part of, instead of making your life where you are. But those infinite worlds, with their infinite potential, beckoned irresistibly.

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#9. Breaking news gently is a misnomer. News doesn't break, people do, no matter how you try to cushion the blow.

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#10. People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.

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#11. People fail each other all the time, Mo, and they forgive each other, and start again. It's a question of knowing the other person's limitations. Knowing what's fair to expect of them. Knowing what's fair for them to expect of you.

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#12. No! See, that's the thing-you were the one I would have chosen, even if there were no fate."
...
"I wanted you, even when I wasn't supposed to be with you.

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#13. Your swoonin' needs work." his accent was back. "so does your alias," I snapped. "Dr.Smith? Seriously? Why not John Doe? And how is it that everybody around here seems to buy you're a doctor? you don't look enough to drink, let alone practice medicine

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#14. A loosening in my chest, the faintest stirrings of hope. But hope was a dangerous, fragile thing, easily shattered. I couldn't afford it.

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