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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

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Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

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Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand.

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She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.

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If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved som...more

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Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.""Which is?""Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?

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As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

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Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea," he said. "Now sh...more

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But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther awa...more

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Just start somewhere," Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits between my teeth. "It doesn't have to be at the beginnin...more

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Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

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I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a li...more

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Plus there’s the fact,” he went on, making it clear he didn’t need me to reply anyway, “that music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a stro...more

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a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays...more

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The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.