Jillian Lauren Quotes

#1. Some days seem like the end of your life but then they aren't and you still have to figure out how to wake up again.

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#2. Fall and I'll catch you. And that was all I'd ever wanted- someone to catch me.

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#3. Power tasted like an oyster, like I'd swallowed the sea, all it's memories and calm and rot and brutality.

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#4. The hitting was easy compared to the words. The hitting happened only infrequently but the words happened every day. I knew he was wrong, knew he was inexcusable. But still, the words were the worst part.

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#5. We're looking for the story that will save our lives.

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#6. I'm too proud to admit that I was forgotten, even to the guy who did the forgetting.

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#7. She was like a real strawberry in a roomful of strawberry Pop-Tarts.

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#8. You have to be careful how you fake it, though, because things like that can stick and before you know it you become what you're pretending to be..

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#9. Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.

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#10. Like people touch the feet of Jesus on the Pieta and hope for a blessing, I would touch the feet of the dancer and hope for grace.

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#11. I pretend I'm fighting to live in the present but really I'm having an affair with the past every secret moment.

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#12. I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.

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#13. I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet ... I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there's usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn't all you'd hoped it to be.

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#14. I don't believe in being broken beyond repair. I believe in second chances.

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#15. Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.

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#16. I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong.

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#17. Regret perches like an umbrella over all of my days.

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