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The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it ... some stories just don't have a happy ending.

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What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either becau...more

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Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip abou...more

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If you travel in space for three years and come back, four hundred years will have passed on Earth. I am only an armchair astronomer, but I have the o...more

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You don't have to say anything if you don't want to."Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glo...more

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Sara," I ask finally, "what do you want from me?""I want to look at you and remember what it used to be like," she says thickly. "I want to go back, B...more

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But kids don't stay where they're supposed to. You turn around and find her not in the bedroom but hiding in a closet; you turn around and see she's n...more

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When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires

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From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to...more

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Things don't always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when you get them pegged under a microscope you find yo...more

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For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty a...more

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You will ask me, after this, why, I didn't tell you this before. It is because I know how powerful a story can be. It can change the course of history...more