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When dad says he's going to church, he actually means he's going to a library or a bookstore. - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.
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The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.
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If Jenny were a book, she would be a paperback just out of the box - no dog ears, no waterlogging, no creases in her spine.
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Pregnant, she looked like a pretty Gollum.
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My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.
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Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me ... I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.
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Sorry, Maya, but it wasn't exactly a pleasure cruise for me either. The quicker you stop shitting yourself, the quicker we don't have to do this.
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The heart is so peculiar. How light and how heavy it can feel at the same time. How light. — Gabrielle Zevin
A place ain't a place without a bookstore,
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I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.
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The more I believe that this is what the point of it all is. To connect, my dear little nerd. Only connect.
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Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know.""I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good. — Gabrielle Zevin
Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.
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Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.
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Oh, you don't want to hear all my sad stories. I can't even bear to tell them anymore. Screw the past, right?
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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails; I was heads.
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Good morning, magazines! Good morning, bookmarks! Good morning, books!
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Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?
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A.J. decides to call Lambiase. He suggests frozen shrimp from Costco, which A.J. now recognizes as Lambiase's default party-throwing suggestion.
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I know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes.
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A.J. has never changed a diaper in his life, though he is a modestly skilled gift wrapper.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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No one, not even the rain has such soft hands.
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How long does a dream have to last before it's just life?
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I loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It's the ideas that matter, man. The words,
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The Catholic schoolgirl in me was scandalized by the thought; I told her we'd been thrown out of Catholic school so she should shut up.
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But now, at this moment, you can't hook your boat to mine, 'cause I'm liable to sink us both. (222)
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It's easier to be happy than to be sad. Being sad takes alot of work. It's exhausting
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Maya, we are what we love. We are that we love.
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They were an indistinct blur of pastel and white uniforms, like chalk doodles on a sidewalk in the rain
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Who are these people who think a book comes with a guarantee that they will like it?
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Daddy once said, If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul.
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I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quite a kind of song.
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Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common?
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You don't choose a book the book chooses you
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She was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy. She was poor and black, which means people say they saw it coming.
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Fuck you. I like you. I'm used to you. You are the one, you asshole. I can't meet someone new.
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They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?
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Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.
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His heart is too full, and no words to release it.
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Reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives.
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I met a travler from an ancient land.
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No one will ever love me that much again.
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As a form, the picture book has a similar elegance to the short story.
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And she always wants to read the same book. And it's, like, the crappiest board book. The Monster at the End of This Book?
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I've made room for you, she said. if you want it, there's room.
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He had referred to blurbs as the blood diamonds of publishing.
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Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.
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No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.
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I doubt that," I said. "I can argue with anything.
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Novels certainly have their charms, but the most elegant creation in the prose universe is a short story.
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The fish does not die with regrets because the fish cannot love. I die with regrets, and yet I am glad I am not a fish.
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Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels.
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E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a "single sitting" was longer back in his day. But I digress again.
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In the end, we are collected works.
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There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.
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Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.
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I love having sex with you," she says. "If you're a vegetable when this is done, can I still have sex with you?
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To begin, it is narrated by Death!
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He had an appreciation for things other people had forgotten
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He doesn't believe in "the one." There are zillions of people in the world; no one is that special.
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Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?
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No Man Is An Island; Every Book Is A World.
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But it's the only way I know to move forward. You make a list and then you go and do the things on it.
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I don't want to die," A.J. says after a bit. "I just find it difficult to be here all the time.
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The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.
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It wasn't even 8:00 yet. Pretty early for such deep thoughts.
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Every book is a world.
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The problem with meeting new people is not that you might not like them, but that you will like them too much.
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It's difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything's changed.
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Amelia the bright-sider believes it is better to be alone than to be with someone who doesn't share your sensibilities and interests.
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But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.
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People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.
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Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.
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No substance," A.J. mutters. "They leave you hungry.
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He smelled like smoke and laundered sheets left to dry in the sun
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It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.
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It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.
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My dad always says to listen for the pauses when you want to know if someone's hiding something.
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The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind ...
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I longed for Mum in the most primitive way
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In you, I found infinity. In you, I was reborn
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And James Patterson (or whoever writes for James Patterson) -
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There are many challenges to long distance running, but one of the greatest is the question of where to put on's house keys.
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Showing up is what counts.
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In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.
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She is no longer speaking. Clearly, some response is required
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