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But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

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Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rath...more

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

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

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

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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I've always felt like the Katherines dump me right...more

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I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.

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The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.

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

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Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drun...more

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Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she becam...more

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

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The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.