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well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

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You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

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Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

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Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

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When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could wea...more

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If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

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What would you do if you only had one day left in this world? Spend it with the people you love? Travel to the far corners of the earth to see as many...more

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Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

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Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastro...more

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If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

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If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

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He kissed her so gently she wondered if she had imagined it

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[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to ...more

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There are all sorts of losses people suffer- from the small to the large. You can lose your car keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your ...more

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It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't ...more