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“Listen, kid. This is what happens: Somebody-girl usually-got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and…

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“I just want to stay away from people and read books and think”

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She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." - Alaska

A Margo for each of us--and each more mirror than window.

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“No one ever says good-bye unless they want to see you again.”

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Neither novels or their readers benefit from any attempts to divine whether any facts hide inside a story. Such efforts attack the very idea…

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“Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song, "Holland, 1945," and then onto Lake Shore Drive, the waves of Lake Michigan crashing against the boulders by the Drive, the windows cracked to get the car to defrost, the dirty, bracing, cold air rushing in,…

“Praise God for good nurses.”

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So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I…

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

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“said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Dad was about to respond but I interrupted.”

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I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

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