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That's the crazy things about lies, you start to believe them yourself. (pg. 342)

Morality has nothing to do with religion," she says. "You can do the right thing and not believe in God at all.

Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

My father says that a fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.

They can take away my livelihood and my food and" - here his voice hitched - "my grandson. But they can't take away my dreams." His

The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.

I have fought, I have cried, and now, I am not sure what else to do.

What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

What makes a treasure a treasure." Marine replied, "is how rare a find it is, when you need it the most.

I kept hoping, silently, that you would want to save her like you hadn't been able to save yourself.

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

She pictured how it would feel to trust your instincts in a strange land, to know the difference between where you had been and where you were going.

Most of the time, the words that were not written were the ones you needed the most.

There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

Her voice sounded like a string that was fraying.

If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

We Pisces, we're a special breed.

Dying of grief is the ultimate sacrifice, but it is not evolutionarily feasible. If grief were that overwhelming, a species would simply be erased.

So that's it?" I say, stunned. "You throw information into someone else's life like a grenade and you walk away before it explodes?

Leave it to a man to mess things up

If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.

You are going to get everything good that's coming to you - not because you beg for it, and not because of what color you are. Because you deserve

It was so much easier to hate them, than to hate myself." My

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

I wouldn't know what being in love felt like if it hit me in the face

I can't say I'm devastated by the way I'm ignored. I guess I have more important things on my mind. The

An elephant until never pretend to be something she's not

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

You can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.

Believe me, you're all I've thought about

At this, I grin.

If parenting is the box of raisin bran, then real mothers know the ratio of flakes to fun is severely imbalanced.

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

A robber? In the trash bins? Honestly, Wes. This is Salem Falls, not the set of Law and Order.

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity.

You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

He did not have to read the careful number to know the weight of Emily's heart; he'd held it for years

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

Surely she knows
like I do
that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.

Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.

I can't watch someone cook without helping. It's a genetic abnormality.

Prejudice goes both ways, you know. There are people who suffer from it, and there are people who profit from it.

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

In the past, even Alex's promises hadn't prevented a reoccurence. She didn't have a choice. She wished he could see that as clearly as she did.

To find out a heart she'd believed irrevocably broken had somewhere along the way been fixed.

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

Gay rights is not something most of us think about - because most of us happen to have been born straight.

When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Maybe we learn to live our lives by understanding, firsthand, how not to live them.

She wondered how it was that she'd never truly studied this statistical symbol before: a figure split in two, a pair of empty circles on either side.

We believe what we want to, what we need to. The corollary is that we choose not to see what we'd rather pretend doesn't exist.

I'm crying for all the things we lose that we cannot get back.

The only monsters I have ever known were men.

I woke up with an unfamiliar taste in my mouth, part sweet part sour, it took me days to realize this was simply hope.

You don't rough them up.

They both knew that jealousy could rise like a tide, erasing events that had been scratched into the shore of your memory.

Sometimes we don't know we're dreaming; we can't even fathom that we're asleep.

If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

Just so you know, when they say "Once upon
a time" ... they're lying

Children are the anchors of a mother's life. - SOPHOCLES, Phaedra, fragment 612

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Nobody's birthday.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

Lie to yourself until it's true.

What we could not see clearly, we didn't have to pretend to understand.

What if we did get so lucky that we're due for something terrible?

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

Waste cilake," Sioux for "I love you,

A heart with so many stress fractures would never be anything but broken.

Everyone deserves a happy ending.

That's a little unrealistic, don't you think?
So was the Final Solution, but it got pretty far, Leo points out.

That's the problem with having a calling," Kennedy says. "It doesn't just pay the rent." A

You want to write something as good as what you've read.

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

You know, that was what we missed most. Not our beds, not our homes, not even our mothers. We would talk about food.

You could lose track of someone when you blinked,

I don't need you. i never needed you."
"well, i fucking needed you!

It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Just in case it ... doesn't work. I want you to know, Delilah. You have been the biggest adventure of my life.

Music is the language of memory

I ... understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

You couldn't argue the facts; you could only change the lens through which you looked at them.

It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others.

When he kissed me, it was with the desperation of a man who is trying to save himself.

I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.

The Abenaki also believe that there are some people who live between the animal world and the human world, never fully belonging to either one.

Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.