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- At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated…
- Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a…
- I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and…
- More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to…
- Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be…
- Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back…
- We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the…
- All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour…
- The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and…
- It felt like everything was rising up in me, like I was drowning in this weirdly painful joy, but I couldn't say it back. I…
- But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten,…
- I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman…
- Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.
- He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!
- We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are…
- 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…
- The idea is that for ten minutes, we forget that we have feelings. And we forget about protecting ourselves or other people and we just…
- He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a lacquered wooden boat…
- I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed…
- Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way. And…
- We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked…
- When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back..
- Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I…
- That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.
- Sorry," I said to the Duke. "Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn't listening. I knew…
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