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Libby Day: I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.
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Libby Day: I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.
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Libby Day: The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
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Libby Day: It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were okay, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that simply wasn't so.
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Libby Day: I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn't have loosened. A stitch come undone.
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Libby Day: I am, I guess, depressed. I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years. I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen within my stunted, childish body - a Libby that's telling me to get up, do something, grow up, move on. But the meanness usually wins out.
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Libby Day: Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.
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Libby Day: I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.
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Libby Day: I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
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Libby Day: There are few phrases that annoy me more than "I won't bite". The only line that pisses me off faster is when some drunk, ham-faced dude in a bar sees me trying to get past him and barks: "Smile, it can't be that bad!" Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad.
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[last lines]
Libby Day: Ben learned something in his prison that I never learned in mine. Forgiveness. My mom told us to make a useful life. Nothing big. Nothing grand. Just a start. Finally, a start.
Dark Places Quotes
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