Corey Ann Haydu Quotes

#1. Sometimes it's a comfort to tell the same stories over and over; sometimes it's a torture

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#2. It feels like giving up.
It feels like falling into bed after an all-night rave.
It feels that right.
It's surrender. It's that thing I have been searching for.

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#3. Memories are quiet things.

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#4. I've always liked the romance of sitting on a bench that so many other people sat on before me.

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#5. Even when everything hurts, even when other cities are exploding and people we love are disappearing, there's still space for sweet things.

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#6. Like Christmas trees and Easter egg hunts and the block party on the last day of summer, we do things because traditions feel cozy and safe.

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#7. I like how love lets everyone in.

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#8. Carrying all of these thoughts is downright heavy.

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#9. Sometimes words I think are small come out big.

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#10. People do crazy things after a big loss.

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#11. On our own, we'd look totally normal. Together, we're something else. Together, we're special.

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#12. Therapists. Always asking the same questions over and over in slightly different ways. They are, like, the Ultimate Thesauruses.

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#13. Even the worst things about Devonairre Street are better than the rest of the city.

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#14. I think of everything and I'm pretty sure if I could use my organizational skills for something else, like wildlife survival kits or preparing people for nuclear warfare, I'd be a millionaire. Or at the very least actually a useful human being.

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#15. Love is something you have or don't have. Love is like a fever.

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#16. That's the thing about anxiety: It's a real time suck.

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#17. Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It's like a gift from the universe.

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#18. It's like, I'm scared and there're a lot of ugly things, but I'd rather be shipwrecked on this lovely island than safe in a sad, gray cell.

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#19. We don't smile, but we something. We something. It hurts, the way a deep connection to someone who isn't yours sometimes does.

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#20. I am a vacation. I am the Caribbean, and a fruity drink and a sunburn and a break from real life. But I am not real life. No one lives in the Caribbean. No one wants a fruity drink every day. I'd rather be water: necessary.

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#21. It's strange how in the craziest moments you reach for normal things like handshakes and formal introductions.

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#22. Feelings are like blankets, covering you up so you can't see clearly, or like mazes you can too easily get lost inside. I am terrified of getting lost.

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#23. If something is provided it is because a need has opened up.

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#24. I close my eyes and make a wish that I'll stop having OCD so that I can be a decent friend again. If I want it badly enough, hopefully it will come true.

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#25. I guess I wonder what it would be like, to be living their live instead of mine.

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#26. I feel stupid for thinking the future was going to be easy and simple and ours.

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#27. We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.

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#28. Traditions don't come out of nowhere. They come from something sacred and strange.

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#29. The human mind is a complicated place ... We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to.

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#30. Love is insanity, apparently.

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#31. We're all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.

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#32. Torture: knowing something makes no sense, but doing it anyways.

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#33. It sounds like love just sort of happens, whether you want it to or not, whether you're married or not.

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