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They had battled and bloodied one another, they had kept secrets, broken hearts, lied, betrayed, exiled, they had walked away, said goodbye and sworn it was forever, and somehow, every time, they had mended, they had forgiven, they had survived. Some mistakes could never be fixed - some, but not all. Some people can't be driven away, no matter how hard you try. Some friendships won't break.
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greed
friendship
end-of-series
robin-wasserman
seven-deadly-sins
sad
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Robin Wasserman |
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52ae453
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But things don't just fall apart. People break them.
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Robin Wasserman |
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9bbc96c
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Girls had to believe in anything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might.
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Robin Wasserman |
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a666015
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Nor did I need anyone's pity, but I would accept it with grace, because I have been well trained. Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the powere to accept anything and move on.
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Robin Wasserman |
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b4c7bad
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You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.
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Robin Wasserman |
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1e1c320
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I longed to return to that bloody riverbank, to throw myself in the path of the final arrow, to die ignorant, and so, in love. Better to be killed by an arrow than by the words of the one I most trusted.
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trust
love
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Robin Wasserman |
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4a10f39
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It's significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants to feel like a rebel- a clearly defined law gives you something to define yourself against.
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rebellion
life
mortal-instruments
society
teen
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Robin Wasserman |
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6e8f012
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The only thing more dangerous than a willingness to ignore the Law is an ability to change it.
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mortal-instruments
law
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Robin Wasserman |
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6b0dec4
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In my room, in the dark, I understood what I never had before, what no one else seemed to. I understood how a boy could go into the woods with a bullet and a gun and not come out. That there was no conspiracy, no evil influences or secret rituals; that sometimes there was only pain and the need to make it stop.
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suicide
loneliness
suicidal-thoughts
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Robin Wasserman |
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c14e2c7
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Rudeness was a sign of weakness. Grace stemmed from power, the power to accept anything and move on.
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Robin Wasserman |
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f9df9ef
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There are some moments you'd rather sleep through, pass from point A to point B without awareness of the time passing or the events that carry you from present to future. And it's mostly those moments in which it's smarter-safer- to stay awake.
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Robin Wasserman |
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3fe5917
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I should probably start with the blood.
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first-sentence
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Robin Wasserman |
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ca68262
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I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.
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love
happy-ever-after
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Robin Wasserman |
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76fae72
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They wanted their girls to be safe. To do what they had to do to conform, to defer, to survive, to grow up. They wanted their girls never to grow up. Never to stop burning. They wanted their girls to say fuck it, to see through the lies, to know their own strength. They wanted their girls to believe the things could be different this time, and they wanted it to be true. They wondered, sometimes, if they'd made a mistake. If it was dangerous..
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woman
feminism
women
feminine-power
gender-deivide
girl
power
sexuality
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Robin Wasserman |
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bb2b971
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In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.
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lia-kahn
shattered
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Robin Wasserman |
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1d12df8
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A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else."
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religion
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Robin Wasserman |
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19ad078
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Not that my arms are getting tired or anything, but... how much longer is the hugging phase going to last?
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Robin Wasserman |
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2f2aaa6
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Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories, imagination and irrationality in opposing, contradictory states that existed and didn't exist, all at the same time.
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identity
truth
digital-identity
digitalization
network
social-media
meta
internet
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Robin Wasserman |
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cf69286
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You could love something and still understand it had ruined your life.
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Robin Wasserman |
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d136289
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Things fall apart. But things don't just fall apart. People break them.
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inspirational
things
break
fall
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Robin Wasserman |
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0f3ffb8
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The love you needed was the kind best avoided.
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Robin Wasserman |
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8b37a08
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Be the person you were so I can be the person you made me.
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Robin Wasserman |
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a1ba6f9
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I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments
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memories
living
life
parents
disappointment
expectations
memory
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Robin Wasserman |
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c926e9c
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Our story ends happily ever after. It has to. We escape Battle Creek, pile into the car, and burn a strip of rubber down the highway. Fly away west, to the promised land. Our rooms will be lit by lava lamps and Christmas lights. Our lives will glow. Consciousness will rise and minds will expand, and beautiful boys in flannel shirts will make snow angels on our floor and write love letters on our ceiling with black polish and red lipstick. W..
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Robin Wasserman |
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d125e10
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Nobody likes me," he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. "Can't imagine why," Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didn't have any lungs."
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Robin Wasserman |
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16c281c
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One of the greatest tragedies of growing up is the discovery that your parents- and your teachers, and your sports heroes, and your favorite actors, singers, YouTube sensations- are fallible. Adults don't know all, and what they do know, they often won't tell you- because they've got their own agendas, or because they want to shield you from the hard truths "for your own good." Adults lie, they betray, they screw up in every way possible.....
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life
growing-up
childhood
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Robin Wasserman |
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69a129e
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If you can't remember something, did it really happen?
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Robin Wasserman |
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fe48be0
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Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.
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Robin Wasserman |
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d8dfd27
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The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness.
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weakness
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Robin Wasserman |
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56aaf8b
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Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.
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science-fiction
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Robin Wasserman |
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e5c0fd0
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Chris loved you," I said, and the truth of it was almost a physical pain. She wouldn't look at me. "No he didn't. And he would have figured it out eventually. So would you? Then where would I have been?" "Not here."
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Robin Wasserman |
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91fac2a
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Under the best of circumstances, middle school is a sixth-circle-of-hell situation, sandwiched somewhere between flaming tombs and flesh-eating harpies. It's the kind of situation that doesn't need gasoline on the fire, especially when said gasoline comes in the form of your older brother murdering the older sister of the third-most popular girl in school.
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Robin Wasserman |
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457a71f
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And you know what? If there is a God, and it's that same God who's so eager to have temples built in honor of his greatness, and wars fought over him, and people dropping to their knees telling him what a wonderful, magnificent being he is? If this all-powerful, all-knowing creature for some reason just can't get by without my worship? Then let him give me some proof. Or at least get over himself if I decide to go out and get some.
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religion
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Robin Wasserman |
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a3f9ae2
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Eli: 'If a machine like that really existed, people would be willing to kill for it. Lots of people.' Nora: 'Yeah, and if hot vampires really existed, suicide would be a viable option for wrinkle prevention. Your point?
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Robin Wasserman |
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2549858
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pregnant. dead. Jewish. These are impossibles.
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Robin Wasserman |
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ae01c9a
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I told myself I deserved some good luck, overlooking the fact that it would call for substantially more than luck to thrust me into one of those narratives where plain-Jane new girl catches the eye of inexplicably single Prince Charming, because somehow the new school has revealed her wild, irresistible beauty, of which she was never before aware.
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love
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Robin Wasserman |
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0048b43
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Life is both a particle and a wave, Lacey taught me, and also it's neither. But only when no one is watching. Once you measure it, it has to choose. It was the act of witnessing that turned nothing into something, collapsed possibility clouds into concrete and irrevocable truth. I'd only pretended to understand before, but I understood now: When no one was watching, I was a cloud. I was all possibilities.
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life
definition
particle
wave
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Robin Wasserman |
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1516a0d
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Eli shouted my name, and then his arounds were around me, and I reached for Adriane who held fast to a blistering, burning creature that once had been Max and somehow still breathed and stood and howled. Though he was now nothing but flame, a golem of fire, that lived only because he'd forgotten how to die.
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Robin Wasserman |
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341b5da
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Stevens, who knew that mouth could do more thana rgue? You're a true blue friend, a red-hot lady and all that other good yearbook shit. You've got a big heart and I've got an even bigger...you know. So we're both winners. KG
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Robin Wasserman |
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f8d0c77
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The world was full of weapons, when you cared to look.
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Robin Wasserman |
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73b2440
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Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.
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law
society
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Robin Wasserman |
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e4993dd
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They were kids. Kids don't care about totalitarianism. For my parents, Prague is picnics on Petrin Hill and homemade . It's home. They didn't notice the tanks in the backyard, the blood in the streets.
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Robin Wasserman |
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a68bcee
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No matter how terrifying, they need to decide that the only rules that matter are the ones they write themselves.
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Robin Wasserman |
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e64eb82
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That was the strange thing about translation, speaking someone else's words in a voice that somehow was and wasn't your own. You could fool yourself into believing you understood the meaning behind the words, but-as my father had explained long before I was old enough to get it-words and meaning were inseparable. Language shapes thought; I speak, therefore I think, therefor I am.
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Robin Wasserman |