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Life Quotes by Nenia Campbell

38 Life quotes by Nenia Campbell

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She built her whole life on the foundation of beauty, shaping each curve like a keystone. Campbell warns that our own reason can trap us in a cage we hardly notice. She also compares hidden sides of friends to secret shapes and calls false superiority a moral mistake.

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We feel most alive when we are closest to death.

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“Books make the best ersatz friendships.”

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“Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.”

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“When nature calls, I don't let it go to voicemail.”

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“All statistics have outliers.”

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“Butt holes are like a one-way street; they were made the way they were for a reason.”

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“Life's a party. So smile and eat shit and pretend it's fucking caviar.”

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“So you thought you could shit and eat at the same time. How disgustingly convenient.”

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“Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.”

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“Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.”

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“He was a phoenix of blood, rising from the ashes of those who had fallen and suffered before him.”

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“I fucking love you, you know," he said. "You made my life complicated as fuck, and I could care less.”

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“That's life. Life is the ultimate game, and its rules were made to be broken”

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“All friends have secrets. We're like three-dimensional shapes on paper; we all have hidden sides. And there's some secrets we don't even…

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“We're so concerned with the idea of what we ought to be that we fail to take into account the things that…

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“Life doesn't come with an eraser. Experiences leave their mark, for better or for worse. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never…

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“Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet…

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“She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial…

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“Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy…

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“ 'Better to have loved and lost,' my ass. Anyone parroting that little platitude had obviously never lost anyone of consequence.”

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“We spend much of our lives going about completely blind to reality, and yet we still have the gall to act victimized…

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“A geas was a contract with the goddess of Fate. Sometimes one was born indentured, other times it was bestowed upon one…

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“You think you fucking know me? I'm an assassin. I kill people for a living. Good people, bad people, it makes no…

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“Words were the bane of her existence. She drowned in them when all she wanted was silence, only to have them recede…

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“Valys also didn't think I was good enough for him. He made that clear every time he acted like a martyr forced…

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“Maybe in a way all living things are like flickering flames in a precarious night, always on the verge of being extinguished.…

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“She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever…

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“Sleeping is terrifying. When you close your eyes and surrender your consciousness to the void, you lose yourself—voluntarily—and you're trustingly assuming you'll…

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“Hatred is about possession. It is all-consuming, cruel, and vainglorious. When love is allowed to fester, it becomes twisted and corrupt; it…

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“I couldn't tell anyone how I felt because I knew they wouldn't understand. Oh, poor little Christina, falling for the bad man…

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“If the whole world seems like it's against you, it helps to know that you've still got home. A safe place. It…

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“She understood now why so many members of her kind died so young. It was possible to squeeze an entire lifetime of…

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“Knowing and doing are two separate things, and don't always sync up in life.”

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“Deep space rendered mortal time-lines inconsequential. Few things were as old, or pervasive, as the vast, encroaching darkness of the universe.”

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“What do you want to do with your life, then?” is often the question I'm asked. To be honest, I don't know.…

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“You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for…

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“Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to…

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“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever…

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“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But…

“When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded…

“You mean you don't want to come in and hold my hand while I piss?”

“He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.”

“They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animals—if they didn't devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.”

“No. I made that choice. I let all that anger and pain get twisted up in my thoughts for you.” He leaned in. “It…

“We both want you dead. I'm bringing the friendship bracelets to the next meeting.”

“She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones…

“Does your family play games, too?" She tries to sound off-hand. "No. Just me - and my brother." Which means her parents are in…

“I feel I could kill. I feel that I might like it. And I know that this should scare me. But it doesn't. It…

“If people are meant to live, they'll live. If not, more room for the rest of us.”

“You were a well-respected agent, Michael, a rags-to-riches fairytale ending. Until you became disgraced. Now it appears your own organization wishes to be rid…

“If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with—and vice versa—the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.”

“Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.”

“But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.”