Tanya Byrne Quotes

#1. I'm seventeen. This isn't puppy love any more. The boys are nearly men, when they bite they leave scars.

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#2. So maybe we are fearless. Fearless not in the fighting dragons sort of way, but in that way you can only be when you're seventeen and scared of everything and nothing, all at once.

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#3. China shop rules, Juliet: you break it, you pay for it, and you broke me. You got what you deserved.

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#4. Why do you hate her, Emily?"
"For reminding me that I did this to myself.

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#5. It's not like I ever thought I'd live forever - or wanted to - but it had never occurred to me that I might die before I'd lived.

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#6. All my life, all I'd ever heard was: Emily's so shy, Emily's so quiet, Emily's so clever. Thinking back on it now, I don't know if I was ever any of those things, or if I just became shy and quiet and clever because everyone said I was.

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#7. Everyone deserves someone they don't have to explain themselves to.

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#8. I don't know if that's ever happened to you, if you've loved someone, loved who they are, then found out they're not that person after all. It doesn't just break your heart, does it? It breaks you. Then you're not who you thought you were, either.

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#9. Do you think that's what love is? Not what they say on the front of those cheesy Valentine's cards you see in petrol stations - you complete me - but is it when someone has seen you at your worst but still looks at you like you're the best thing that's ever happened to them? I think it might be.

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#10. I know love isn't enough, that you can love someone with every bit of yourself and still fuck it up beyond repair. And that's okay because sometimes they're your one but you're not their one, which is kind of cruel, but what can you do?

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#11. We all know what we had, don't we? We just never thought we could lose it.

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