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- Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what…
- Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them.…
- I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the…
- I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in…
- He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some…
- I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best…
- Like so many before them, they didn't care that my dad was only the messenger. They still wanted to shoot him.
- That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we…
- It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.
- How do you even begin to return to someone, much less convince them to do the same for you? I had no idea. More than…
- So what do you wear to dump somebody?" she asked me, twirling a lock of hair around one finger. "Black, for mourning? Or something cheerful…
- I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into…
- It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the…
- She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells…
- The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
- You can't act like you care about someone but not let them care about you.
- Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.
- Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was…
- There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over,…
- I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.
- The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from…
- You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.
- He doesn’t love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn’t know any better. When I trusted everyone. I’m…
- Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I…
- This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They dont jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster