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Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie Ma...more

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I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards...more

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Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

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You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

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It's funny how they thought we were dating," Colin said, glancing over at her."How's that funny?" she asked, holding his gaze."Um," he said. Distracte...more

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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

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You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.

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...getting dumped is predictable, repetitive, and boring.They want to stay friends; they feel smothered; it's always them and it's never you; and afte...more

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People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

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That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.

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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think t...more

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...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.

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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the...more

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The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't ov...more