Julia Hoban Quotes

#1. Her brother is crying, he is wretched and broken. Though his sobs are barely audible, he is weeping with absolute and total abandon. Such a naked display of emotion is both alarming and frightening.

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#2. If this is not a happy ending, it is perhaps a happy beginning.

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#3. If someone were to look carefully, the angry red marks underneath the fine cotton of her blouse would be clearly visible. But nobody ever does look carefully.

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#4. And she knows then that she was right about her brother, that it takes an unbelievable strength to feel this kind of grief, and she doesn't know if she can handle it, because it really hurts, hurts her more than the razor ever could.

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#5. She watches as the blood springs from the cut she's making, but it doesn't change anything. Not this time. She swipes again, deeper. Now she feels pain, but will it be enough?

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#6. I guess what scares me the most now is the thought that I won't be able to protect you

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#7. If she let herself, she'd drown in a world of pain

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#8. I just figured out why someone would want to make the first mirror ... I think some lover wanted his beloved to see how she appeared to him. He wanted her to be able to see herself the way that he did.

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#9. oh brave new world that has such a person in it.

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#10. If it all looks good on the surface, I'll know I've failed at life

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#11. If you go, then I'll miss you.. terribly

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#12. Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what's comfortable and easy. I'll care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really reach for anything. And then I worry that even if I do, I won't succeed.

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#13. It's hard to keep something a secret when it's written all over you body.

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#14. I need a Kleenex." She sniffs.
Guy disengages his hands from hers, takes the hem of his
sweatshirt, and wipes her nose with it.
"That's romantic," she says, embarrassed.
"Well, it is sort of, because I wouldn't do it for anybody else
in the world.

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#15. You couldn't really say that something that hurts so badly feels good exactly. It's more that it just feels right. And something that feels so right just couldn't be bad. It has to be good.

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#16. Isn't that interesting."
"Hmmmm?"
"When you blush, it doesn't stop at your collarbone.

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#17. And she realized that this is true. Pain has somehow transformed into pleasure, and that pleasure is better than any pain could ever be.

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#18. It's hard to keep a secret when it's written all over your body ...

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