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But it'd be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk to
about anything, someone who'd tell me I was really special.

adulation." I stare at the

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.

Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.

Amazing, Yetta thought. Back home I couldn't have chosen my own husband. And here I'm thinking about choosing presidents, governors, mayors, laws ...

Thanks a lot! She went and hid somewhere else, somewhere safe- and left me to deal with Mr. Pyromaniac 1483!

I wasn't asking anything about God," Jonah complained.
"Yeah, you kind of were," JB said. "If there is fate, who else would control it?

Why didn't you tell me that evil could be so lighthearted?

I am not just what I remember. I am also what I dream.

I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

It kind of seemed like, as long as he was alive, there was still hope that he could fix things.

You bite off more than you can chew, 'course you're going to choke. One bite at a time. And that goes for thinking things, too, not just food.

bitter is a bad way to live!

I wouldn't even let your dad talk about . . .

ever-present, BlackBerry-obsessed dad.

Maybe never again as long as I live. He turned and walked into the

Is any history really all that ancient? ... Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?

Some things just are. They can't be changed or undone or fixed.But people-people can heal. Even from events they believe are unendurable.

Luke's dad harrumphed, and paused in the midst of shoveling forkfuls of boiled potatoes into his mouth.

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now.

It just happened,

Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?

Saw the first tree shudder and fall, far off in the distance. Then he heard his mother call out the kitchen window: Luke! Inside. Now.

I want to Live! Not Die, Not Hide, LIVE!

Hope doesn't mean anything ... Action's the only thing that counts.

Sometimes you do your very best and you lose anyway.

my parents are very good at bribery.

Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.

There's hope around the corner.

Staring into the ring of candles - proud that the number of his years finally made a ring, all around the cake

I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.

The truth is, time travel is hard, and people are lazy.

I have a choice.

Does FBI mean Federal Bureau of Idiots?

The story begins like so much else,' she says slowly, 'With hope. Hope and dreams and daring ...

But, really, are there any guys out there who aren't jerks? I don't even know any grown-up men who aren't jerks.

So," the bearded man said, "we kill this man

It's people like you who change history. People like me
we just let things happen to us.

Luke pictured himself

At times like this, Eryn didn't feel like they were just twins. They were teammates. They were partners. They were two halves of the same brain.

There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.

Want to change history? Luke made a stab at humor.

We'll have a 'rest of our lives' now,

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

There was a law against Luke.

But things are so bad, I feel like I'm going to explode if I don't do something.

Most people couldn't be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn't be honest if they wanted to be rich.

Winning isn't everything," Eisenhower said faintly. "Sometimes, just knowing your family's safe and healthy and alive is even better.

We will not be stupid girls. We will not be powerless girls. We will not be useless girls

Sometimes you have to fight for what you want,' Chip said, his expression set. 'Sometimes the fight is all you get.