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“Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.”

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Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it?

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There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the…

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In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

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“Not know it was hard;knowing it was harder”

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“Didn’t everything on God’s earth have or acquire defense?”

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If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

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“You looked at them and wondered why the were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that…

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All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him "my parrot" all these years. "My parrot." "Love you. "Love you." Did the dogs get him? Or did he get the message - that she said, "My parrot" and he…

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For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end.…

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“To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay”

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“Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.”

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“You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself, it’s not a twinkle, it’s more like a throb. Star throbs. Over and over and over. Like this. Stars just throb and throb and throb and sometimes, when they can’t throb anymore, when they can’t hold…

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When everybody loves you, that's just about as funky as you can be.

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“Can I tell you a boring science fact?" she whispered. "I bet you didn't learn it in Shadowhunter history class." "If you're trying to distract me from talking about my feelings, you're not being very subtle about it." He touched her face. "You know I make speeches. It's okay. You don't have to make them back. Just tell me you…

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The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your…

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“You would have to be loved before you could be changed by it,” she added. “And I hate to disappoint you, but I don’t love you.” “You’re breaking my heart.” “Not that it isn’t an interesting thought. If anything could possibly affect you. I don’t know. What would happen if someone did love you? I think you’d reject them; in…

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“How To Tell If Somebody Loves You: Somebody loves you if they pick an eyelash off of your face or wet a napkin and apply it to your dirty skin. You didn’t ask for these things, but this person went ahead and did it anyway. They don’t want to see you looking like a fool with eyelashes and crumbs on…

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Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key…

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“Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down, you dig, farting out the words. It was unlike anything I ever heard. Bubbly, thick, stagnant sound. A sound you could smell. This man worked for the carnival,you dig? And to start with it was like a novelty…

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Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me.

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It seems like thin people should not be running around dissing overweight people, and overweight people should not be running around dissing thinner people... if you like your body, love it, if you feel beautiful, cool. If you're a size 24 and you are feeling fierce, heat. If you're a size 0 and feeling fierce, be fierce. I think we…

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