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On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.

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But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could nev...more

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Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music.

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A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

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I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

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We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

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It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing attainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regul...more

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Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important ...more

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She loved so much misteries tha she became one

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I think the future deserves our faith. But it is hard to argue with Emily Dickinson.

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pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost ...more

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Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds," I added. Radar tapped a locker twice with h...more

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It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.

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I spent the next three hours in classrooms, trying not to look at the clocks over various blackboards, and then looking at the clocks, and then being ...more

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I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving th...more