

“WebMD calls it a stage of grief - anger. But I doubt I'll ever get to the other stages. This one slices me into millions of pieces. Every time I'm whole and back to normal, something happens to tear me apart, and I'm forced to start all over again.
The rain lets up. The devil stops beating his wife, but I beat the dashboard, punching it over and over, numb to the pain of it. I wanna be numb to the pain of all this.”
― The Hate U Give
The rain lets up. The devil stops beating his wife, but I beat the dashboard, punching it over and over, numb to the pain of it. I wanna be numb to the pain of all this.”
― The Hate U Give

“My hopes and dreams floated up in a mushroom cloud. What do you do when the world has declared nuclear war on you?”
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
― The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“Life is easier when one takes a moment to free the mind of thought. My thoughts wanted to destroy me, fulfil a prophesy of my destruction only they could bring true. My mind wanted to think the worst, protecting me for the worst times, yet I knew if I thought that way I surely would fail. I could not become my own worst enemy.”
― No More Time to Dance
― No More Time to Dance

“We can never fully know the people we love. When we lose them, there will always be more we could have seen, but that's what I'm trying to tell you.”
― Beach Read
― Beach Read

“We humans have a nasty habit of deciding to believe that things we don’t actually understand are explained in some way that we make up. And the next thing we know, we’re killing each other over these imaginings.”
― A New World
― A New World
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