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Pete sat half up,

Since we all know for a fact that we're all going to die, why don't we all treat each other like we could lose each other at any minute?

Gandhi once said his commitment was to truth, not consistency.

Love always looks nice. I don't really know anyone who doesn't enjoy it when they see it. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really want to know them.

I don't think you feel much of anything anymore.

But it's funny how you can take something that turns out to be fatal and classify it as not worth fixing.

What a man eats, he should be willing to kill.

The people with the least to give always give the most.

I don't know if war is always pointless," she said. "I know it's always tragic.

Not that Bella wasn't pretty. Grace thought she was. But she wasn't thin.

Maybe we've removed all the relevance from the information we teach kids so they have no idea why they should care.

higher and kicked him.

I wondered if a white person could ever comment on the minority experience and get it right.

But that never did any good anyway. People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone. The small

I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.

Not a bad life's work.

Some things, like innocence, only go one way.

You can only save face for just so long before you wake up and realize you have nothing left worth saving.

Esta bien," Clara called back. They sat in silence a while longer. "You seem pretty relaxed," she said to Billy. "Pretty

I can live through everything or I can answer for everything, but sometimes both is just too much for one day.

Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic.

Nearly everything is easier to get into than it is to get out of.

They just want to kill the pain. Everybody just wants to kill the pain.

The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.

The shorter your range of vision, the fewer options and changes to trouble you.

You can do anything you want, so long as you're willing to pay the bill when it comes in.

If you want to see a man come to his senses, try something like, Do you happen to carry a rubber in your wallet? Did I mention I'm not on the pill?

When I dreamed about the time you would actually sleep with me, I thought there'd be some sleeping involved.

Nothing's more dangerous than a girl,

The divisions of time had gone on vacation, leaving just a crush of constant moments.

He'd be proud of me for crying, and I cry harder. How do you stop crying, Simon?

The drinks were so perfect, so visually artistic. Virginia could honestly believe she would find her salvation in one.

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.

The value of your life is your own choosing, Nathan

He knew then why his voice had abandoned him. Because it takes courage to talk to people.

Everyone, everywhere was having a life.

It means feelings come through loud and clear whether you express them in words or not. - Nathan

I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling up the air with words

His grandfather probably would have said that all men feel fear, but cowardly men deny it.

If I was to kill everybody who didn't love me and never would, wouldn't be nobody left on the planet?

an easy smile, which he gives away for free.

Why be given hours and days if all you want to do is make them go away again?

I am the way I am. We all are the way we are and I'm not sure any of us really knows why.

We should all be much more careful with each other's hearts.

Was something contagious. I'm not sure what you're

Of course, Nathan

Everybody is careful these days to maintain just the right attitude toward the war effort.

I seem to remember that Gandhi once said his commitment was to truth, not consistency. - Nathan

But when I was inside, I was always OK. So I just started staying inside. Like I told you before, it gets to be an addiction.

All I know is that you can't force yourself to feel something you don't.

anymore. Maybe he was even with someone else after all this time. "You really look worried," Pete said. "Relax. Something came up that he

I have a number of questions. If I had half as many answers, I'd be in great shape.

Whether they admit it to you, whether they admit it to themselves, people know where they stand with each other. Virginia

Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.

But I bet more than half the people in the world right now are worrying about something that really is going to be okay.

The world I live in is not all white people, not all straight people, and it's not all people who have their acts together, either.

August briefly tried that on for size. Wondered if he longed for summer because summer made it so much easier to breathe.

Don't you dare give up on me.

This is what we do. We do crazy shit because we're broken. That's who we are. That's what we do.

But I've learned in my life that not everything that happens needs to be talked about. Some things are better left alone.

Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work.

The fact that you don't grasp the meaning of something doesn't mean it has none.

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

There's something about standing on the top of a mountain you personally climbed at great sacrifice.

Supermarket she tried to bite, and the dog was

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced
it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

Pete's voice. "You

After a while you look at a picture and all it helps you remember is the picture. And then it gets kind of memorized and you hardly even see it.

Everything in the world is easier to clean up after than your own actual damn life.

He listened to the occasional creak of Flora's squeaky board, and noticed it sounded lonely. Or maybe that was just him.

I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.

I feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.

Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They

So you're saying you don't feed something in a situation where it would be a big disaster for it to grow.

people is that we forget that something unexpected can happen at any time.

You can't tell someone to pursue their dream only if it's a good match for your own. You can't dictate what dream he should pursue.

We do crazy shit because we're broken.

Look for strength in unexpected places.

If you can't pay it back, pay it forward.

There is no wrong way to perform an act of kindness.

A dream has more than one owner. It belongs to everyone it may choose to touch. Whomever it concerns.

We take things on a little at a time because all at once they'd kill

If it takes you apart, that's not love. Love puts you back together.

Every life matters. Even if it's "them.

There was something peaceful about an untouched fall of snow. Like being in another world, where nothing can go wrong. Because nothing can find you.

If there's some hidden part of me that thinks like that, I'd rather not go searching for it. - Nathan

I think you can scare somebody out of doing something, but not out of feeling like they want to.

It depends how important it is to them to see things differently.

People learned by what they experienced. It mattered little what anyone said to anyone.

But the moon doesn't say what it knows.

Feelings are a funny thing, he realized. They're always more tangled and contradictory and complex than we want them to be. Than we care to admit.

Where isn't really the problem. The where isn't to blame for the what.

You can't even begin to heal until it strikes you that something needs healing.

I loved pain, followed it, thought it would cleanse me, right my wrongs.

Sex is what you make it, and we have always made do. To assume sex must take place within touching distance seems, to me, limited thinking.

I've practiced "alone" a lot, and I'm good at it.

Oh. I didn't know that." "So, you're naming your dog Feathers because ...

It's one thing to know the right path and another thing to take it.

You could do worse than to be amazed.

It would be easier if people were just good or bad and that was that.
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