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“A parent’s love is unbearable, reckless, irresponsible.” (Us Against You Quotes)

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Us Against You Quotes

“Anxiety. It owns us but leaves no trace.”

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Us Against You

“Because people are always dependent upon other people, and we can’t ever really forgive one another for that.”

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Us Against You

“Being a mother can be like drying out the foundations of a house or mending a roof: it takes time, sweat, and money, and once it’s done everything looks exactly the same as it did before. It’s not the sort of thing anyone gives you praise for.”

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“Culture isn’t just what we encourage but what we allow to happen.”

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Us Against You

“Death does that to us, it’s like a phone call, you always remember exactly what you should have said the moment you hang up.”

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Us Against You

“Death does that to us, it’s like a phone call, you always remember exactly what you should have said the moment you hang up. Now there’s just an answering machine full of memories at the other end, fragments of a voice that are getting weaker and weaker.”

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“Every large group you don’t yourself belong to is a threat.”

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“Everyone is a hundred different things, but in other people’s eyes we usually get the chance to be only one of them.”

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Us Against You Quotes

“Exclusion is a form of exhaustion that eats its way into your skeleton.”

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“Grief is the price we pay for love, Ramona. A broken heart in exchange for a whole one.”

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Us Against You

“He’s twelve years old, and this summer he learns that people will always choose a simple lie over a complicated truth, because the lie has one unbeatable advantage: the truth always has to stick to what actually happened, whereas the lie just has to be easy to believe.”

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“I don’t want you to take me places, I want you to back me up so I can get there myself!”

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Us Against You

“If you want to know why people sacrifice everything for love, you have to start by asking how they fell in love. Sometimes it doesn’t take anything at all for us to start loving something. Just time.”

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Us Against You

“It can be an unbearable sorrow for someone to know that he’s regarded as such a wild animal in other people’s eyes.”

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“It’s hard to care about people. Exhausting, in fact, because empathy is a complicated thing. It requires us to accept that everyone else’s lives are also going on the whole time. We have no pause button for when everything gets too much for us to deal with, but then neither does anyone else.”

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“It’s so easy to think that what we post online is like raising your voice in a living room when it’s actually more like shouting from the rooftops.”

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Us Against You

“It’s always so easy to say what everyone should have done when you know that what they actually did didn’t work.”

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“It’s said that a person’s first thought is the most honest, but that often isn’t true. It’s often just the most stupid. Why else would we have afterthoughts?”

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“It’s so easy to get people to hate one another. That’s what makes love so impossible to understand. Hate is so simple that it always ought to win. It’s an uneven fight.”

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Us Against You

“It’s so easy to think that what we post online is like raising your voice in a living room when it’s actually more like shouting from the rooftops. Our fantasy worlds always have consequences for other people’s realities.”

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“Life is a weird thing. We spend all our time trying to manage different aspects of it, yet we are still largely shaped by things that happen beyond our control.”

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Us Against You

“Masculinity is complicated when you’re twelve. And at every other age, too.”

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“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

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Us Against You

“Perhaps one day he’ll find words for that feeling of being different. How physical it is. Exclusion is a form of exhaustion that eats its way into your skeleton. People who are like everyone else, who belong to the norm, the majority, can’t possibly understand it.”

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“Sometimes good people do terrible things in the belief that they’re trying to protect what they love.”

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“Sometimes people have to be allowed to have something to live for in order to survive everything else.”

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Us Against You

“The best friends of our childhoods are the loves of our lives, and they break our hearts in worse ways.”

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Us Against You

“The complicated thing about good and bad people alike is that most of us can be both at the same time.”

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Us Against You

“The truth about most people is as simple as it is unbearable: we rarely want what is best for everyone; we mostly want what’s best for ourselves.”

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Us Against You

“There are two types of people now. Some of them need more time, and some need more sense. There’s no hope for the second group, but we might have to wait to see how many there are in the first group before we start beating it into their heads.”

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“They run only where there are lights. They don’t say anything but are both thinking the same thing: guys never think about light, it just isn’t a problem in their lives. When guys are scared of the dark, they’re scared of ghosts and monsters, but when girls are scared of the dark, they’re scared of guys.”

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“Two drowning people with lead weights around their ankles may not be each other’s salvation; if they hold hands, they’ll just sink twice as fast. In the end the weight of carrying each other’s broken hearts becomes unbearable.”

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“Unfairness is a far more natural state in the world than fairness.”

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Us Against You

“What does it take to be a good parent? Not much. Just everything. Absolutely everything.”

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Us Against You

“When guys are scared of the dark, they’re scared of ghosts and monsters, but when girls are scared of the dark, they’re scared of guys.”

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Us Against You

“You can force people to obey you, but you can never force them to follow you. If you want them to play for you, they have to love you.”

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Us Against You

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