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David Arnold

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  • Willa Anindyahas quoted7 years ago
    Because even though honesty is hard, you really have to murder people with it if you expect to be a person of any value at all
  • Willa Anindyahas quoted7 years ago
    Maybe there is some black and white, though. In our choices. In my choices.
  • Willa Anindyahas quoted7 years ago
    I wonder if my sister can feel her mother’s touch. I hope so. And I hope she knows that kind of love is not nothing. It’s a huge something, maybe the biggest of all
  • Willa Anindyahas quoted7 years ago
    that yes, even though the world was fucked up beyond measure, there was beauty to be had and it was waiting for them—maybe
  • Willa Anindyahas quoted7 years ago
    “It’s okay,” I say again, because if I keep saying it, maybe it will be true. It’s okay it’s okay it’s okay it’s okay
  • Willa Anindyahas quoted7 years ago
    A person who was once full. A person who lived and dreamed, and above all, a person who cared for something—for someone. And within that person, he places the possibility of poof—gone—done—to be replaced by a Great Empty Nothingness.
  • Willa Anindyahas quoted7 years ago
    “Did God mess up?” I asked.
    “Nope,” said Bubbly Skinned Man, smiling like a fool. “He just got bored.”
  • Willa Anindyahas quoted7 years ago
    I was lovely once, but he never loved me once
  • Willa Anindyahas quoted7 years ago
    love found and love lost; fireworks, fortune cookies, famous rock stars, empty bottles, true compassion, false starts, staying up late, moonlight, sunlight, being a wife, being betrayed, being in my corner, being my mother, being, being, being.
  • Willa Anindyahas quoted7 years ago
    Be curious, but content. Be loyal, but independent. Be kind. To everyone. Treat every day like you’re making waffles. Don’t settle for the first guy (or girl) unless he’s the right guy (or girl). Live your effing life. Do so with gusto, because my God, there’s nothing sorrier than a gusto-less existence. Know yourself. Love yourself. Be a good friend. Be a kid of hope and substance. Be a kid of appetite, Iz. You know what I mean, don’t you? (Of course you do. You’re a Malone.)
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