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She just looked right at him the only way she ever had, like he was the only other person in the world.

We all get people that help us make sense of the world, right? We just have to figure out how to keep them however we can.

She hadn't heard the words Star Trek in seven days and it felt amazing. The

He hasn't left his house in three years, he's not crazy, he's a genius; just tv and videogames twenty four-seven, I think he's my new hero ...

Some people sign on for the impossible. And they're the ones everybody remembers.

You're both living these lives you didn't choose to live in a world full of people telling you what that's supposed to mean. That's messed up.

It was easier for me to hate everyone in town than hate myself for being afraid I'd be just like them.

He was afraid of the world, afraid it would find a way to swallow him up. But, maybe everyone was sometimes.

It's not too hard to disappear when no one's looking for you.

His brother, he thinks, was in love with everyone he knew.

And, long after Clark had gone home, Solomon stayed up wondering if everyone falls in love with someone who can't love them back.

Cullen?"
"Hey, Mom."
"Can you do me a favor?" she asked in that way that implied that saying no would cause someone to die.

Cabot Searcy began to care about learning not for the sake of making good grades, but because he still wanted to change the world.

Do you ever stand in here with that garage door open?"

"No I do not."

"Interesting," Clark said.

As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters whos with you.

You can find ways to be okay with dying, but you can't fake your way through living.

But she believed there was a thin line between accepting one's fears and giving in to them altogether.

I don't want to lie about who I am, even if it doesn't matter. It's who I am. It's part of me.

Watch it,' her mom snapped. 'Don't start a fight just because it's the easiest thing to do.

I'm sorry, Cullen. I really am. I know this sucks. But you're better off anyway. And you'll be fine. You needed me. Now someone else needs me.

No matter how evil man gets, he always gets a second chance one way or another.

Writing was, is, and will always be my favorite job.

People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

He tried to help the world, but the world wouldn't let him.

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.

They say using your imagination makes you live longer.

I'm completely obsessed with Andrew Smith's 'Winger.' A great, hilarious, and moving story.

I'm a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.

We are who we are. You know that better than anyone.

I love meeting readers and booksellers and am beyond overwhelmed and gratified at the reception. Each day feels like an adventure.

That's how I knew I loved her so much, because not loving her didn't make any sense once I'd known what it felt like.

Not a day on your calendar should ever be empty. It's bad luck. Twenty-four hours of wasted opportunity.

We're just floating in space trying to figure out what it means to be human.

I've been an assistant to a folklorist and a teacher. There may or may not have been some sandwich-making at a certain sub chain in my past as well.

Janis was completely caught off guard that Lisa finally stood up for herself

My family and friends have been monumentally supportive from well before I was a published author.

If this were an indie movie, we'd start talking about the constellations," Solomon said, looking up at the stars.

The Quit Man cometh, his minion at his heels.

A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future

In the middle of my fourth year teaching is when I got my book contract - in 2010. I knew the book would come out in May 2011.

He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.

I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.

You're like Lady Macbeth without the murder." "Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me.

Ada Taylor knelt beside me on the floor as I cried for the first time over the thought that my favorite person in the world was probably dead.

But I know what it's like to constantly think about a life you aren't living.

Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I'm just haunting them.

She believed in herself maybe more than other people believed in God or the devil or Heaven or Hell.

I knew the second I met you that you'd save my life someday.

Think Han, not Lonely Agoraphobe.

You know things are weird when you start appreciating your farts.

There are no boring places, only boring people,

But, you see, it is not so much in the things we say to them about Christ, but more in the things we do for them that mirror the ways of Christ.

You have to forget about people when you can't have them anymore. That's the only way to be okay.

I thought, 'What if I were 17, and it was my small town of Springhill, Louisiana? How would I feel if people started flooding in to see some bird?'

I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.

He accepted him for what he was. And that Data concluded, was true friendship.

Isn't it better not knowing? Like, just liking each other and seeing each other all the time without any definition to it?

I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

The gays love me. I think it's the accent.

I'm a huge movie nerd.

The unspoken philosophy of all those in love with Ada was something like this: If I have to die to get that, then death it is.

someone who wants to trust everyone so much that they don't see a lie when it's slapping them right in the face.

What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.

It was like looking at the sun and not going blind