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Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each re...more

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

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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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...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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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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Tobin," Mom said disapprovingly. She wasn't a particularly funny person. It suited her professionally - I mean, you don't want your cancer surgeon to ...more

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

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She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the ...more

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The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive

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AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.'So that's Sara,' I said.'Yes.''She seems nice.

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I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot...more

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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.