Top 54 Rebecca McNutt Quotes
#1. I don't like psychiatrists," Alecto told her. "Not because they don't think I'm real, but because they have no idea what they're doing.
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#2. I love the smell of old books, Mandy sighed, inhaling deeply with the book pressed against her face. The yellow pages smelled of wood and paper mills and mothballs.
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#3. Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves.
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#4. When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?
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#5. These days we have Smartphones, Smartcars, Smartboards, Smarteverything, but consider this: if technology is getting smarter, does that mean humans are getting dumber?
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#7. Truthfully she felt incredibly miserable, seeing university students and tourists bustling in and out of the place with their cell phones in hand, texting like there was no tomorrow. Living behind a screen, they'd likely text with their last breath.
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#8. Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be.
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#9. Your imaginary friend isn't the problem, Amanda. The problem is that you don't seem to have any real friends.
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#10. So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind.
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#11. Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people.
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#13. There was a super-8 steel town somewhere, where all the forgotten things in the cruel world ended up eventually, Mandy was sure of it ... this place, she decided, was called Smog City.
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#14. Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself ...
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#15. Newspapers take peoples' tragedies and force the world to experience all of it.
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#16. I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic," said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.
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#17. What's supposed to be and what is, are two very different things.
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#18. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.
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#19. I used to think to myself that I was the last kind of person who should have a guardian angel, but then I realized that maybe my type of person is the kind who angels come to first.
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#20. Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse.
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#21. Don't you think it's better to continue reading than to just close the book?
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#22. The child psychologist's clinic: where imaginary friends go to die, where dreams go to burn, where creativity goes to drown.
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#23. Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses.
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#24. Dreams are just lies that we tell ourselves while we're asleep.
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#25. I don't want any other friends! They'd never be as good a friend as you are.
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#26. I'll never buy a cell phone, I'd rather die than have a cell phones. Cell phones are the 21st century's ball and chain.
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#27. I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.
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#28. He's completely blown through his younger years like his childhood was one big cigarette to smoke carelessly.
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#29. Smile for the camera, pretty little Sydney Tar Ponds.
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#30. Mandy loved the smell of a sunny day after a night of rain. The sun hit the orange puddles, the overgrown, soft, green grass on her lawn, and it beamed down through the orange steel mill smog, sending otherworldly, bizarre shadows across the concrete sidewalk.
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#31. There's a good reason for everything, ain't there?
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#32. Alecto, do you think we have fallen from heaven, or do you think we are falling towards it?
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#33. Just because something isn't good doesn't mean it's bad.
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#34. Friends are like the stars that glow in the sky ... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there overhead, and even when it's cloudy, snowy or stormy, even when the power goes out and you're trapped in darkness, they'll always find a way to shine through to you.
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#35. The hardest part of being a Canadian kid is having to color in Nunavut with a crayon in school, hell on earth.
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#36. Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.
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#37. You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane.
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#41. I can't look people in the eye and tell them that they're going to die anymore.
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#42. Film photography will always be superior to digital - because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you've got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and meaning than one a built-in robot took.
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#43. One of the many downsides to being a drug addict is never really knowing if the stuff is real.
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#44. If I hear the phrase "selfie" one more time, I'll have to enroll myself in anger management classes.
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#46. Life is not the end, and death is just the beginning...
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#47. Alecto isn't a person! He's just something that society made and then threw away, a memory that refuses to die.
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#48. Life is so funny sometimes that you just have to laugh.
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#49. Directing a funeral isn't about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead.
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#52. You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die ... I just don't want to exist.
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#53. A picture's worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.
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#54. I'll remember you ... I remember everyone I've lost.
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