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- He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he…
- Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to…
- I eased back on my elbows, tilting my head back to look up at the sky, which was pinkish, streaked with red. This was the…
- The lizard stared up at us, and we stared back, taking each other in. He was little and defenseless, I felt sorry for him already.…
- But I always worked harder when I was up against something, or when someone assumed I couldn't succeed. That's what drove me, all those nights…
- But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life.…
- Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And…
- Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese…
- 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…
- Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love you.
- Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of…
- What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed…
- From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that…
- The end of a wedding reception is always so depressing. And only the bride and groom are spared, jetting off into the sunset while the…
- Everything looks different when you're older, not staring up at the world but down upon it.
- Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to…
- It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so…
- And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up since June, when I was…
- I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.
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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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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- 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
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong