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- Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when…
- Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my noise like whispers of truth.…
- It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.
- You went up a girl and came down a woman.
- They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin…
- The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.
- So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as…
- I'll do it, Todd," I whisper. "I'll come with you." And he doesn't say anything, just squeezes my hand harder and brings it up to…
- Because I'm not blind to how Harry works, you know," she said. "A bully with a charisma and top marks is still a bully." She…
- Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down…
- Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that…
- Viola blows out a thoughtful air. "My dad used to say, 'There's only forward, Vi, only outward and up.'" "There's only forward," I repeat. "Outward…
- I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows…
- If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a…
- I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He…
- We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
- I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like…
- I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.
- What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something up without…
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