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Fire and hope are connected, just so you know. The way the Greek told it, Zeus put Prometheus and Epimetheus in charge of creating life on earth. Epimetheus made the animals, giving out bonuses like swiftness and strenght and fur and wings. By the time Prometheus made man, all the best qualities had been given out. He settled for making them walk upright, and he gave them fire. Zeus, pissed off, took it away. But prometheus saw his pride a..
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Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.
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If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase--not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been--what would you take? The last photograph you had of your mother? A birthday gift from your best friend--a bookmark embroidered by her? A ticket stub from the traveling circus that had come through town two years ago, where you and your father held your breath as jeweled..
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You can have the best intentions, but the moment there's a hairline crack, it is only a matter of time before you go to pieces.
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Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?
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But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.
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Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.
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lone-wolf
plans
goals
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I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of the..
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Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.
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You have to understand what you're missing before you can really feel a loss.
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It's the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship. It's not always perfect; it's not always pleasant--but because it is rooted in respect, it is unshakable.
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Imagine a world that seemed so much bigger than you. Imagine waking up one morning and finding a piece of yourself you didn't even know existed.
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She was forced to consider the startling fact that the love of her life might not actually be someone with whom she could spend a lifetime.
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And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.
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Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?"
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An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology
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That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.
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People don't just disappear. There's always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There's always a loose thread that starts to unravel.
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But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.
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marriage
had-known
saction
transgression
without-marriage
first-time
everyone
needs
making-love
wants
moment
lie
everything
sin
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The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.
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What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.
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Maybe a mother wasn't what she seemed to be on the surface.
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It's not politically correct to say that you love one child more than you love your others. I love of my kids, period, and they're all your favorites in different ways. But ask any parent who's been through some kind of crisis surrounding a child--a health scare, an academic snarl, an emotional problem--and we will tell you the truth. When something upends the equilibrium--when one child needs you more than the others--that imbalance beco..
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love
favoritism
parenting
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Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek a..
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I realize i do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary,any day. I believe that having something to hope for-even if its just a better tomorrow-is the most powerful drug on this planet.
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eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you
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Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.
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People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning."
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But what if your obsession has nothing to do with drugs or thrills or money? What if what you want most in the world is to recapture the way life was a week, a month, a year ago-and you are willing to do whatever it takes?
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
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reality
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He knew that there was a difference between something that makes you happy and something that doesn't make you unhappy. The trick was convincing yourself these were one and the same.
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Laws are black and white. The lives of women are a thousand shades of gray.
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That's because racism isn't just about hate. We all have biases, even if don't think we do. It's because racism is also about who has power...and who has access to it.
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You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.
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Maybe the reason I've never died in this story is that I've never had something worth dying for before.
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There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.
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Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.
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If you choose to go looking for something, you'd better be ready for whatever it is you find. Because it may not be what you've been expecting.
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It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.
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anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information.
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Until I understood why you didn't cry, even though it hurt: there are kinds of pain you couldn't speak out loud.
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As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.
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motherhood
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If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?
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happiness
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How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?
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