"I've loved more than I should've, and now the outcome is killing me alive. Is this how cruel we are to ourselves? Or it's just that the world is cruel to us?"
"She was a kind person with a beautiful soul that no one has or ever had. I loved her, but she had to leave, guess we weren't destined to be together."
"Loss is a friend, and we have to accept it into our lives, it's our reality, and we're meant to live with it."
"I once believed in eternal love, but death betrayed me, now I only believe in eternal loss."
"If memories could speak, secrets would be unveiled. And no one would want that, right? That's why memories are only blurry images of our past events."
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Emily is a normal girl, but when she meets normal people that have identical experiences like her, life gets tougher and brings more relief. But at the very end, things take a turn for the worse, when all the hidden truths start to reveal themselves, and life begins to lose its meaning.
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Zainab Yusuf,
2024.
When Jane Madarang's neighbor Natalie kills herself and leaves behind cryptic instructions, it's up to Jane and her classmates to unearth deadly secrets.
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Natalie Driscoll is dead.
She threw herself out a window and left her neighbor Jane to unravel their town's darkest secrets. Following Natalie's instructions leads Jane to three other high school students who all have something to hide. The four of them must carry out Natalie's final errand while solving the mysteries written in her diary. But the secrets they unearth may be far more dangerous than what they ever imagined.
Content and/or trigger warning: This story contains scenes of suicide, violence and murder that may be triggering for some readers.
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