Nancy Werlin Quotes

• Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.

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  Heart, Space, Life And Death

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• It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

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  Thinking, Secret, Needs

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• But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

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  Life, Long, Supposed To Be

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• People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

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  Cousin, Nuts, People

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• Always remember: In the end, the surviver gets to tell the story.

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  Stories, Remember, Ends

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• Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.

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  Love You, Mean, People

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• No. It's actually not okay. And I hate when people say that, when they say it's okay even though it's not. It's better to tell the truth.

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  Hate, People, Telling The Truth

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• Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

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  Cousin, Life And Death, Needs

  Nancy Werlin (2009). “Killer's Cousin”, Penguin

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• Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

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  Love You, Mean, People

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• Was true love when you wanted to slap someone and kiss him madly at the same time?

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  Kissing, Wanted, Slap

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• The human instinct for self-preservation is strong. I know, because mine pulls at me, too, like the needle on a compass. And everybody - I've been reading some philosophy - everybody seems to agree that the instinct and responsibility of all humans is to take care of themselves first. You have the right to self-defense. You have the right to survive, if you can.

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  Strong, Philosophy, Reading

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• When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.

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  Dream, Real, Miracle

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• I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.

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  Thinking, Tough, Honestly

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• There is nothing in this world that I want or need, but you.

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  Needs, World, Want

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• You can be special without being extraordinary.

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  Special, Extraordinary

  Nancy Werlin (2011). “Extraordinary”, p.145, Penguin

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• It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window.

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  Fear, Black, Might

  Nancy Werlin (2003). “Black Mirror”, Penguin

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• Nothing that had happened in the past could be taken away. This was an amazing gift. The past was done and over and settled; you couldn't get it back, but still, whatever good you had gotten from it, spiritually, emotionally, would be yours for your lifetime.

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  Motivational, Taken, Past

  Nancy Werlin (2011). “Extraordinary”, p.161, Penguin

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• MATTHEW'S RULES OF SURVIVAL 1. Sometimes, the people who mean you harm are the ones who say they love you. 2. Fear is your friend. When you feel it, act. 3. Protect the little ones. 4. If you coped before, you can cope now. 5. Always remember: In the end, the survivor gets to tell the story.

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  Love You, Mean, People

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• But just now, he'd gotten on his knees and proposed marriage, like in a television commercial for a diamond ring. Except of course they had the roll of duct tape instead, which, when you came to think about it, was a far more practical item. Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

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  Mistake, Nice, Thinking

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• Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

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  Mistake, Nice, Adults

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• When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.

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  Falling In Love, Hurt, Real

  Nancy Werlin (2011). “Extraordinary”, p.249, Penguin

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• We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should've all just gone on medication

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  Gone, Fellowship, Medication

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• Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over. And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.

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  Healing, Night, Two

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• It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?" It took him a minute. "Yes," he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her." Oh? What?" I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on." Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.

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  Running, Baby, Thinking

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• Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a swamp with a goat's horn?" Yes, ma'am. And I aim to wear my seamless shirt while you do it.

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  Swamps, Goats, Drink

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