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- I was running from one problem or place to another, with no time left to study, or sleep, or just breathe. I felt pulled in…
- You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill…
- I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing…
- I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
- I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many questions in life. You couldn't…
- It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or…
- All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder…
- I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him…
- Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.
- So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together,…
- I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got…
- No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the…
- All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to…
- I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to…
- I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had to do was ask, and I,…
- But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while you wait, you…
- You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs.
- Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.
- Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie…
- That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing more that you'll have with Spinnerbait…
- I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had…
- Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.
- Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.
- When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world…
- I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. "You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
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- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle