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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead. (Ann Brashares)
I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past. View quote
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You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin. View quote
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Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace. View quote
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How many times could you give up on someone you loved? View quote
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She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn't imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn't really imagine it hadn't. View quote
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She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn't have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty? View quote
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Time is what keeps things from happening all at once. View quote
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Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard. View quote
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He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn't see it anymore. View quote
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What if people knew they were recycled? Would that change anything? (Ann Brashares)
The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it. View quote
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She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him." "Why?" "Because I wanted to be with you. View quote
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Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her. View quote
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Luck never gives; it lends. View quote
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Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman. View quote
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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson. View quote
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It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort. View quote
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Please believe him. Keep your heart open to him. He can make you happy. He has always loved you, and you once loved him with all your heart. View quote
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The present no matter what I brought couldn't change the past. The Past was set and sealed. View quote
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She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to. (Ann Brashares)
She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her. View quote
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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others. View quote
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It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it. View quote
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What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back. View quote
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