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Books—they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

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Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to.

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Kafir, you have a very complicated problem with a very simple solution.

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

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...being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them.

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That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.

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There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed oka...more

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You can't just make me different and then leave

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This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around and telling stories. Window stories and mirror stories. I only listened - the stories...more

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Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

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Such was life that morning: nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, ...more

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You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

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Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

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im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.