Kelly Braffet Quotes

#1. This girl. This little high school kid with her stupid boots and her Addams Family wardrobe and her skin as white and floury-looking as unbaked bread. Pillsbury goth girl, just out of the can.

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#2. When you love somebody, you don't just give up on them when they do bad things. You fight for them.

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#3. Nature has a pretty sick sense of humor.

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#4. The only way to keep something pure is to keep it to yourself

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#5. Death, Randa thought, elevated people.

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#6. That was my brother: it was like he was his own species, one that had sneaked a couple thousand extra years in while evolution was looking the other way.

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#7. To kill was to be doomed. To kill was to die, yourself.

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#8. It wasn't so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where were you supposed to begin?

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#9. Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie?

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#10. Sex is just sex. It's everything wrapped around it that's the problem.

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#11. There are people who live their entire lives and never know this kind of love.

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#12. The problem with hope, Anne finds through the years, is that it gets your hopes up. But hopelessness is worse.

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#13. All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.

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#14. You think you're paying your dollar for a chance at the $6.2 million jackpot on Saturday, but really you're paying for the pleasure of the car ride home, deciding which credit card to pay off first and where your kid will suddenly be able to go to college.

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#15. Caro, you're a pretty girl, but I'd no sooner fuck a good waitress than I'd key my own car

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#16. It all began to seem unreal, the chairs and the waiting and the dead girl at home in the closet.

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#17. He did not understand her. They were not the same. The garage, the trial, the old man with his head in his hands
his mother, struggling to breathe
those things were horrors. The mess under Layla's clothes was a game and he hated her for making a part of it, for ever coming near him.

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#18. Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.

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#19. Caro needed to be important. It was boring and typical and transparent as hell, even to her, but she couldn't turn it off any more than she could quit having arms.

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#20. Hate can be just as intimate as love.

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#21. Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one?

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#22. You couldn't talk about the way things should be in somebody else's family. Families were like oceans. You never knew what was under the surface, in the parts you hadn't seen. Caro

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#23. Logic is what the devil likes most.

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