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That's because I'm a better person, frankly. I am a freaking princess when it comes to other people's feelings.
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Failure isn't falling down, it's staying down.
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We know," Nudge said apologetically. "It's just--she's going to make sweet potatoes with raisins and little marshmallows on top."
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Max! Save Total! -Angel No, I'm flying down at 90 miles an hour just for fun -Max
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I picked a star and wished as hard as i could that somehow i could protect him from what was on the horizon
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THE RIVER OF FOREVER is not the serene, clear-blue comfort that you'd hope to greet your soul after you've exhaled your last breath in the Overworld.
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He felt nervous and excited an happy and kind of filled with dread, all at the same time. It was the most emotion he'd never experienced...
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if you spin in a circle perhaps avoiding corners
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They were my parents. Dead. They died in their bed under freakish circumstances three months ago, leaving my brothers and me devastated and bankrupt.
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Hey, Axi. What's the difference between a doctor and a lawyer?" I knew this joke--it was one of Robinson's standards. And I was only half-surprised he was trotting it out now. Playing along, I said, "I don't know. What?" "A lawyer will rob you; a doctor will rob you and kill you, too."
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They get me, and I get them. They have . Most people don't, they really don't.
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Bad stuff does happen sometimes. Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean and you move the hell on.
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Now, like all the other schools I've ever attended, the hallways of Long Beach Middle School are plastered with all sorts of NO BULLYING posters. There's only one problem: Bullies, it turns out, don't read too much. I guess reading really isn't a job requirement in the high-paying fields of name-calling, nose-punching, and atomic-wedgie-yanking.
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That's right: Never underestimate the power of a good laugh. It can stop some of the fiercest middle-school monsters.
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I knew how good love could be -- I knew it was the best thing I'd ever done in my life -- and yet here I was alone. I was taking chances with my life. I kept telling everybody that I was all right, but I wasn't.
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People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It's hard. ~Angel
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Michelangelo didn't show David triumphant, the way every other sculptor did. He showed David before he fought Goliath--when David believed he was doomed and went into battle anyway.
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Happiness is seeing Bear Bluff in your rearview mirror, but you better look damn quick.
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You... are... a... fridge... with... wings," Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. "We... are... ballet... dancers." --
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All genders?" whispered Nudge. "Aren't there just the two? Or did I miss something?" I shrugged. "No idea. Maybe they've created others." The thought was fairly repulsive, and we made "eew" faces at each other."
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All teachers who were telling everyone where to go were wearing outfits made of aluminum foil , like robot aliens .
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Purple is such a twisted, complex color--it conveys the passion of red, the sadness of blue, the depravity of black. Purple is neither happy nor sad. It is pain and despair but longing, too--fiery desire, beaten and bruised but struggling onward, determined to overcome, to move forward rather than retreat.
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The only thing that beats One is two, and three, and four.
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You know the pop is coming, but damn if it don't always surprise you.
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The truth has always been far too dangerous for the public to know. The truth didn't usually set people free, it just got them crazier. Most people just couldn't handle the truth.
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Jack and Jill came to the hill on a grave and somber mission you've made them mad the time's so bad to be a politician" "Jack and Jill came to hill to do some deadly deeds they weren't far wrong to judge how long a bleeding liberal bleeds."
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SHUT UP!" I yelled all the way down the hall. "FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, JUST SHUT YOUR STUPID NOSY MOUTH!"
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Don't you just hate it when you go to a friend's funeral and you get kidnapped?
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I'm sure some of you get sent to your rooms sometimes by your parents. All I have to say is, the next time it happens and you're lying there all mad thinking about how hard your life is, just picture me standing next to you, ready to smack you upside the head. When I get sent to my room, it's in a freaking dungeon! With rats!
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How many of us share the stories of our lives with our own children? What a loss to the children if we don't.
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free will (noun): A delusional idea that humans are in control of their own destiny and not subject to the benevolent rule of The One Who Is The One.
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You put on a mask. But don't you see? Nobody can really know you unless they know your extremes
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The Dick tells us that Denny once worked on some arson cases, but I'd wager a mortgage payment that those cases took place when you created fire by rubbing two sticks together so you could cook the stegosaurus you killed with a spear and dragged back to the cave.
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The eight-year-old beat your best cadet in hand-to-hand combat?" "So did the six-year-old girl, ma'am. Actually, she beat the instructor also." --
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Oh, I guess I want to fall in love, to stay in love for a while. I want to feel real romance every day that I possibly can. I want to feel something special in my life. I want to experience intimacy with another person. I'm not that different from everyone else. Except that I act instead of daydream.
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The items on the counter in the shop had been pawned by a man who had used an American driving licence as his ID, issued in the state of New Mexico in the name Jack Bauer. He had received 16,430 kronor in total. "Is this some sort of fucking joke?" Jacob asked. "How the hell can someone get away with calling himself Jack Bauer? Jack Bauer! The TV show? Twenty-four?"
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The cell phone in my pocket went off. Shit! Damn it! Why do I carry these infernal gadgets? Why does anybody in their right mind need to constantly be on call?
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Uh, a honking big castle of evil in Germany?
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The doors of every house have a unique sound when they open and close.
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Like, if you're gonna make a decision about me and my life for my own good without consulting me, I'd better be dying and unconscious, and you'd better be following carefully written instructions. ~Max
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Maybe you'll learn something about life beyond Batman.
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We're headed for the South Pole!" Gazzy jumped over the low threshold into our room from the boys' room next door. "And it's, like, so far south that it's the bottom of the whole world."
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To just lie there and feel vulnerable, and think about everything that had just happened between us, and wonder how it had changed things, and wonder when I had started to love him so much, so painfully, and feel how terrified I was and how elated, and how every cell of my body felt so alive. It was pretty much the worst thing that could ever happen to a girl. I highly recommend it.
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My dear, there is no universal secret. There's only the secret each writer discovers for herself. The path forward
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