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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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We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks ...more

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

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Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

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After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....li...more

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Too many locks, not enough keys.

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I didn't pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I'd noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that ma...more

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

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Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd alwa...more

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It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especi...more

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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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Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

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Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning t...more

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It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then...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?