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I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

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Why do writers use symbolism?” Okay, so let’s say you have a headache and you wanna tell someone about it and you say, “I have a headache!” and other ...more

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The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that...more

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Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", N...more

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He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

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When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

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Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

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Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

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For me, at least, fiction is the only way i can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true.

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I looked over at Augustus Waters, who looked back at me. You could almost see through his eyes they were so blue. "There will come a time," I said, "w...more

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We have a bad habit of seeing books as sort of cheaply made movies where the words do nothing but create visual narratives in our heads.So too often w...more

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What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies th...more

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I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write ...more

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Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom ...more

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Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doin