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He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

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There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were a...more

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I didn’t know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning every happy memory I had of growing up. Without it r...more

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There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

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Please kiss that girl a million times.

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I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't the same thing.

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It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.

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If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only...more

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After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

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I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

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I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my hou...more

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While I pressed the tissue to my face, Beck said, “Can I tell you something? There are a lot of empty boxes in your head, Sam.”I looked at him, quizzi...more

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I started down but Sam caught my arm and knelt down himself to look. "For crying out loud," he said. "It's a racoon." "Poor thing," I said. "It could ...more

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I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed ...more

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He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. A...more