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AwkwardlyAnna
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October 1, 2013 8:51pm UTC

censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.
Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them, I only feel this appaling sadness.
Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.
They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.
- Charles Bukowski

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AwkwardlyAnna
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September 22, 2013 6:55pm UTC

person: how do you feel?
me: I actually don't anymore.

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AwkwardlyAnna
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September 17, 2013 8:49pm UTC

In Latin class today
we translated a story about a goddess who fell in love with a human.
She asked Jupiter (Zeus) to make him immortal,
but the poor guy still aged and just never died.
Her solution?
Turn him into a cricket and leave him in a cave with the promise "I'll love you always!"
k.

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AwkwardlyAnna
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September 14, 2013 3:37pm UTC

the most important things are the hardest to say.
they are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller.
when they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things.
but that's not all.
the most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried.
they are clues that would guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal.
It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things...and then people just look at you strangely.
They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.
Stephen King

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AwkwardlyAnna
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September 9, 2013 9:10pm UTC

much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me,
so I knew what Augustus was doing.
You clench your teeth.
You look up.
You tell yourself that if they see you cry, you will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become mere sadness,
so you will not cry,
and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling,
and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close,
and you look at the person who loves you and smile.
- John Green

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AwkwardlyAnna
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August 27, 2013 7:08pm UTC

Three years ago my sister went to prom with a guy named Tobias Mortoccos.
To-buy-us-more-tacos.
oh my gosh.

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AwkwardlyAnna
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August 26, 2013 8:30pm UTC

I have finally begun to understand that I do not write.
I leak.

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AwkwardlyAnna
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August 25, 2013 7:29pm UTC

writing is something you do alone.
It's a profession for Introverts who
want to tell you a story but don't want
to make eye contact while doing it.
John Green

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AwkwardlyAnna
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August 21, 2013 1:33pm UTC

People think a soulmate is your perfect fit.
and that's what everyone wants.
but a true soulmate is a mirror; the person who shows you everything you're holding back.
a soulmate's purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart so new light can get in.

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AwkwardlyAnna
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August 20, 2013 3:00pm UTC

fairytales are more than true: not because
they tell us dragons exist, but because
they tell us dragons can be beaten.
- G. K. Chesterton

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AwkwardlyAnna
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July 30, 2013 1:34pm UTC

"I mean, at least with an argument, you know what's happening. Or have some idea. Silence is...it could be anything. It's just -"
"So freaking loud," I finished for him.
He pointed at me, "Exactly."

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AwkwardlyAnna
posted a quote
July 28, 2013 3:28pm UTC

today was going great, until,
people.

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AwkwardlyAnna
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July 27, 2013 2:36pm UTC

that moment when
you finish a book, look around, and realize everyone is just carrying on with their lives...
as though you didn't just experience emotional trauma
at the hands of a paperback

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AwkwardlyAnna
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July 27, 2013 12:00pm UTC

I am an Introvert.
it's not that I don't like to talk, I just find "small talk" meaningless.
I am not afraid of people, I just don't have a reason to interact.
I'm not rude, I just prefer everyone be honest instead of beating around the bush.
I'm not shy, I just value closer friendships with fewer people.
I don't hate public places, I just don't like being there for extended peiods of time.
I don't always want to be alone, but I am comfortable in my own thoughts.
I'm not weird, I'm an individual.
I can relax and have fun, I just prefer to do it at home or in nature, not busy public places.
I'm sorry I can't "fix" myself and become an extrovert.

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AwkwardlyAnna
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July 27, 2013 11:49am UTC

you never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is.
She is funny without ever being mean.
I love her.
I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten.
You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world,
old man,
but you do have some say in who hurts you.
I like my choices, I hope she likes hers.
I do, Augustus.
I do.

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AwkwardlyAnna
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July 27, 2013 11:41am UTC

"I'm bored."
you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
and even the inside of your own mind is endless, it goes on forever inwardly, understand? Being the fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to be bored.

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AwkwardlyAnna
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July 27, 2013 11:37am UTC

great books help you understand,
and they help you feel
understood.
-john green

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AwkwardlyAnna
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July 25, 2013 1:56pm UTC

in TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY
The author was asked about the main character's name.
She said: Early on, my main female character was named Anna Baker. But I discovered several other novels dealing with suicidal characters named Anna, so I thought I'd give the name a break.

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AwkwardlyAnna
posted a quote
July 25, 2013 1:50pm UTC

Books
one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for hundreds of years.
Across a millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.

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AwkwardlyAnna
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July 25, 2013 1:41pm UTC

and then came the night thoughts.
The I'm not good enough, nobody loves me, and would anyone care if I died? thoughts.
As she curled around herself, trying to hold all of her broken pieces together, the world went on without knowing all the things she kept inside.

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