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- "And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only…
- "Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of…
- In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or…
- If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.
- I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me…
- But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up…
- The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his…
- I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a…
- I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender…
- Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus...
- He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon…
- You just gotta tell her, man,’ I said. ‘You just gotta say, “Angela, I really like you, but there’s something you need to know: when…
- But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was…
- …because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people…
- How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?
- Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.
- You can say a lot of bad things about Tiny Cooper. I know, because I have said them. But for a guy who knows absolutely…
- I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want…
- Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up…
- People are different when you can smell them and look up close, you know?
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster