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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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Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.

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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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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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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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Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust.

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He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

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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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I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

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Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On...more

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People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing....more

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But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our...more

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There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged ou...more

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I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.