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[havenin]

We all have reasons for our actions. Even if we hide the reason from those who think they know us best. Even if the reasons are so deeply buried we can't recognize them ourselves.

An Anonymous Girl, Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen

[havenin]

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that everyone was forsaking me and going away from me.

White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky

[havenin]

Our entire relationship, if you can call it that, is based on not wanting to talk to one another.

Two Can Keep a Secret, Karen M. McManus

[havenin]

They never yelled, just walked around with so much simmering resentment that it spread through the entire house like poisonous gas.

Two Can Keep a Secret, Karen M. McManus

[havenin]

How could I alone have invented it or imagined it in my dream? Could my petty heart and fickle, trivial mind have risen to such a revelation of truth?

The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man, Fyodor Dostoevsky

[havenin]

how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.

The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man, Fyodor Dostoevsky

[havenin]

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

Animal Farm, George Orwell

[havenin]

People you have a history with, they won’t let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can’t disentangle yourself, can’t set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying.

The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins

[havenin]

There's something energizing about getting what you want, even if that something is shame.

Final Girls, Riley Sager

[havenin]

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photographer said. "She wants," said Jay Cee wittily, "to be everything.”

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

[havenin]

Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.

Stephen King, It

[havenin]

Compare her face with some that I shall show, and I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

[havenin]

Out of her favour, where I am in love.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

[havenin]

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Homer, The Iliad

[havenin]

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves

[havenin]

But if it be never - if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves...

Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda

[havenin]

but out of the corner of my eye I can see her face fall, and for some reason that's perversely satisfying. Finally, something makes sense.

Karen M. McManus, One Of Us Is Lying