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As last days go, mine sucked. The last day I would have chosen -- the last day I deserved -- would have involved more chocolate.
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humor
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Which is to say, I'd been lonely for so long, I'd forgotten that I was. That feeling of disconnection, of grief for something I'd never had, of screaming into a void and knowing no one would hear me---I'd forgotten that was anything other than the basic condition of life.
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Robin Wasserman |
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Impossible not to see them, not to remember what it was like, when it was like that. To sit there, shivering, as the sun dips toward the horizon and the wind blows cold over the waves, as the sky blazes red and darkness gathers around the girls, neither of them knowing how little time they have left before the fire goes out. Remember how good it felt to burn.
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Robin Wasserman |
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82982ca
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That if I pretended hard enough nothing was waiting to claim me, nothing ever would.
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Robin Wasserman |
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ce80c04
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She felt, at times, that what had seemed like an infinity of choice turned out to be a funnel, life narrowing itself one bad decision at a time, each mistake cutting the options by half, spiraling her ever downward until there was nowhere left to fall but into a small, dark hole that had no bottom. Choosing
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Robin Wasserman |
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1407efc
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I envied Elizabeth- but I admired Groot. Because if you truly believed in the lightning bolts, why not do everything in your power to take them for yourself.
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Robin Wasserman |
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Istedigi zaman gozyaslarini icine akitip gulumseyebilme yetenegine sahip olmustu.Bu yuzden de gozyaslarinin gercek olup olmadigini o da anlamiyordu. Oscar'li bir oyuncu gibiydi.
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oscar
sloth
sins
smile
tears
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Robin Wasserman |
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32d3d5b
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There had to be consequences. Lacey was always right about that. Maybe freaks stayed freaks and losers stayed losers, maybe sad and weak was forever, but villains only stayed villains until someone stopped them.
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villains
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Robin Wasserman |
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0ba6421
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See them in their golden hour, a flood of girls high on the ecstasy of the final bell, tumbling onto the city bus, all gawky limbs and Wonderbra cleavage, chewed nails picking at eruptive zits, lips nibbling and eyes scrunching in a doomed attempt not to cry. Girls with plaid skirts tugged unfathomably high above the knee, girls seizing the motion of the bus to throw themselves bodily into their objects of affection.
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Robin Wasserman |
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137892d
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The doctor's voice was cold. "There's nothing to put back. There's no body to go back to. The body of Lia Kahn is dead. Be grateful you didn't die with it."
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Robin Wasserman |
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1bc1dbe
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hacking in its pure form stretched back centuries. It wasn't restricted to a single medium. It was more than a methodology. It was an ethos.
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hacking
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Robin Wasserman |
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0ee182a
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They wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong.
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girls
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Robin Wasserman |
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c1cc966
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Origin stories are irrelevant. Nothing matters less than how you were born. What matters is how you die, and how you live. We live for each other, so anything that got us to that point must have been right.
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Robin Wasserman |
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1f6ac3c
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Pick a pair of them, lost in each other, a matched set like a vision out of the past. Nobody special, two nobodies. Except that together, they're radioactive; together, they glow.
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Robin Wasserman |
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1ef1509
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I knew we were better together than we were alone, and better still than everyone else, and that was enough.
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Robin Wasserman |
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48c54b9
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According to Lacey I had the lyrics all wrong. I sang like it sounded to me, because those words sounded right: I loved you I'm not going back I killed you I'm not going back.
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nirvana
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Robin Wasserman |
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940cb0b
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Org dreams are nothing but random neural firings, spurts of color and unprompted emotion. The story comes later, in that instant before waking, your muddled mind making sense of the chaos by stringing the randomness into a narrative.
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Robin Wasserman |
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725b460
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You'd think BioMax could have improved on the defective male brain. . . .
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Robin Wasserman |
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c7cfa44
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The days had no shape. They passed, which was good enough.
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Robin Wasserman |
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8610773
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She was dressed for summer in Battle Creek, which meant straddling the narrow line between socially acceptable and buck naked, somehow making a strapped cotton shell and sweaty cutoffs look both girl-next-door sexy and living-room-small-talk appropriate. Kid-tested, mother-approved. I was dressed nearly the same, but looked like a homeless person. "So,"
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Robin Wasserman |
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Since I was dead -- or worse than dead, buried alive in a body that might as well be a coffin except it denied me the pleasure of suffocation -- I figured I should be allowed to grieve.
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Robin Wasserman |
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3877996
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Sascha looked torn. Should she cram my head full of newfound terror that the world would reject me, or let me wander into the big, scary out-there, like a naive lamb prancing to the slaughter?
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Robin Wasserman |
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Like when everything flipped upside down and the scream of metal on metal exploded the silence and the world churned around me, ground over sky over ground over sky, and then, with a thunderous crack and a crunching of glass and steel, a twisted roof crushing me into a gutted floor, ground, I wasn't surprised.
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Robin Wasserman |
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11dd06a
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The chemicals were both highly flammable and highly toxic, and more than one inexpert bust had ended in conflagration.
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Robin Wasserman |
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4823fa1
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Just because you can't take something back, doesn't mean you don't want to. Just because you want to, doesn't mean you try.
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Robin Wasserman |
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Never be sorry, never be frightened, never be careful - those were the rules of Lacey. Play by the rules, win the game: Never be alone.
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Robin Wasserman |
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fc50b86
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We would get high only for a higher purpose, Lacey had decreed.
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Robin Wasserman |
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Smash the right two particles together in the right way and you get a bomb. That's us, Dex. Accidental fusion.
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Robin Wasserman |
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It was only ours the way everything was ours: because the world we created between the two of us was secret and wholly owned.
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Robin Wasserman |
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My secret self, the scarecrow-Lacey built of twigs and mud and bark, the Lacey who was made of forest and would someday be summoned home.
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Robin Wasserman |
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I don't believe in Our Dark Lord of the Underworld or the rising of the Antichrist, I don't believe in child sacrifice or wild midnight blood rituals, and I don't believe that I can call on the power of Satan to knock some cheerleader off her pyramid. Wearing black felt safe. Wearing it on my skin, the mark of something vicious, that felt right.
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Robin Wasserman |
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5642748
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Have you ever been in love? For real?
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Cassandra Clare Robin Wasserman The Evil We Love |
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I did it all mechanically. Mechanically, as in without thought, as in through force of habit, as in instinctively, automatically, involuntarily. Mechanically, as in like-a-machine.
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Robin Wasserman |
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519f7cc
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When I was a kid I used to wonder if, just maybe, the world existed only for me. If rooms ceased to exist when I stepped into the hallway and people disappeared once they left me, the rest of their lives imagined solely for my entertainment.
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dissociation
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Robin Wasserman |
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74bde22
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It was almost a relief, no longer having to be extraordinary. To give up on existential questioning and simply abide.
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Robin Wasserman |
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Now I wonder, Nicki said. Didn't we all? What it would be like to be one of them, to have power, be seen, be heard, be dude rather than sluts, be jocks or geeks, or bros or nice guys, or boys will be boys, or whatever we wanted instead of quantum leaping between good girl and whore. To be the default, not the exception, to be in control, to seize control, simply because we happen to have a dick.
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Robin Wasserman |
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Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask.
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forbidden-knowledge
questions-and-answers
questions
knowledge
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Robin Wasserman |
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353bfce
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I think you grow up different, by the water. You grow up knowing there's a way out.
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Robin Wasserman |
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Loretta didn't have much time left for mothering, and once I was old enough to fry my own eggs, she started leaving me home with the cat. Then the cat ran away; she didn't notice. Poor
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Robin Wasserman |
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You tell me, Dex, what kind of a bullshit god doesn't care what you did or who you hurt as long as you say you're sorry? Forgiveness
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Robin Wasserman |
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People do crazy things when they're keeping girls locked up in their shed.
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Robin Wasserman |
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ae12650
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cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.
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life-quotes
life-lessons
life
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cliche
cause
effect
result
life-philosophy
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