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I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

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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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Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

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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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Suffering can bend & break us. But it can also break us open to become the persons God intended us to be. It depends on what we do with the pain. If 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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How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

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He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because yo...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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I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards...more

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Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

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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