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Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Susie misses...

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But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.

Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones

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It was better to look like you were doing something when you stared into the distance, Ruth had learned. Otherwise it was likely that strange men would come over and try to talk to you.

Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones

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She was thinking reach the waves, the waves, the waves

Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones

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desire to reach those waves, touch her feet to another ocean on the other side of the country, was all she was thinking of - the pure baptismal goal of it.

Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones

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It all seemed so wonderful back then - filmy and romantic - stones in the pocket, walk into the waves.

Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones

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Her brain was a storm, her usual insight gone.

Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones

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She focused only on her breathing. The in. The out.

Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones

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Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones

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She wasn't much of a talker when there was nothing to say.

Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones

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Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see.

Alice Sebold, Lovely Bones

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But really it was because being alone was easier. It was a masochistic form of selfishness, dressed up as independence, and it was fiendishly hard to break.

Lucy Dillon, Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts

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But we're two intelligent, reasonable adults. And we can only do our best.

Lucy Dillon, Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts

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Don’t say anything stupid, she warned herself. Just keep your brain engaged at all time.

Lucy Dillon, Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts

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People never know what’s right for them until they meet it. Life always turns out right in the end.

Lucy Dillon, Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts

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Why do you only meet hot men when you've just made a total fool of yourself, she wondered through the dull roar in her ears.

Lucy Dillon, Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts

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I’ve done upset. I’ve done how bloody unfair it is. I don’t want to waste any more time on stuff I can’t change. I want to do things for us, from now on. Stuff I can change.

Lucy Dillon, Lost Dogs and Lonely Hearts