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It's a physical sickness. Etienne. How much I love him. I Etienne. I love it when he cocks an eyebrow whenever I say something he finds clever or amusing. I love listening to his boots clomp across my bedroom ceiling. I love that the accent over his first name is called an acute accent, and that he a cute accent. I love that. I love sitting beside him in physics. Brushing against him during labs. His messy handwriting on our worksheets...
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it's okay that my future is unknown. And maybe," I say with another smile, "it's okay to be inspired by the people who do know their future."
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and what appears to be every graphic memoir ever written - Jeffrey Brown, Craig Thompson, Alison Bechdel, James Kochalka, Lucy Knisley, and tons of others I've never seen before.
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Some people might leave you [...] but it doesn't mean you're worth leaving
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I'm dizzy. It physically hurts to look at him. "I can't breathe." "Of course you can breathe," Kurt says. "You're breathing right now."
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We're both aware that he knows everything about Parisian life, whereas I have he savvy of a chocolate croissant.
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He tastes like champagne. He tastes like desire. He tastes like my deepest craving fulfilled.
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Is it possible that I'm worthy of being loved by someone whom I love?
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He was the kind of beautiful that got under your skin.
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You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake.
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winter
life
love
my-true-love-gave-to-me
first-kiss
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holiday
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We're talking about the technical aspects of translation again. Do I have to do all the work here? Who can tell me one of the problems translators face?" Rashmi raises her hand. "Well, most words have different meanings." "Good," Professeur Cole says. "More. Elaborate." St. Clair sits next to Rashmi, but he's not listening. He scribbles something fiercely in the margins of his book. "Well," Rashmi says. "It's the translator's job to determi..
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You know more useless crap, St. Clair. Good thing you're so darn cute," Josh says. St. Clair smiles. "At least 'cemetary' sounds classier. And you must admit-this place is pretty classy. Or,I'm sorry." He turns back to me. "Would you rather be at the Lambert bash? I hear Dave Higgenbottom is bringing his beer bong." "Higgenbaum." "That's what I said. Higgenbum." "Oh,leave him alone.Besides, by the time this place closes, we'll still have pl..
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But...she didn't know him, did she? Marigold was suddenly struck by how badly she to know him.
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It was around the time of the divorce that all traces of decency vanished, and his dream of being the next great Southern writer was replaced by his desire to be the next writer. So he started writing these novels set in Small Town Georgia about folks with Good American Values who Fall in Love and then contract Life-Threatening Diseases and Die. I'm serious. And it totally depresses me, but the ladies eat it up. They love my father's book..
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He takes my hands into his.Those perfect hands, that fit mine just so.
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Steve Carver-the guy with the faux-surfer hair-and Amanda's best friend, Nicole,are chosen.Rashmi and I groan in a rare moment of camaraderie.Steve pumps a fist in the air.What a meathead. The selecting begins,and Amanda is chosen first. Of course. And then Steve's best friend.Of course. Rashmi elbows me. "bet you five euros I'm picked last." "I'll take that bet.Because it's totally me." Amanda turns in her seat toward me and lowers her voi..
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We have everything to say. And where do you begin with everything?
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But we stayed together because... I don't know why. Maybe because we thought we should be in love. At least I did. I wanted to be in love.
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My face is round, and my cheeks are pinchable, and my ears stick out farther than I'd like.
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Okay, I've lied to him. But you saw how jealous he gets. It makes me feel like I have to. And I shouldn't defend my right to be friends with another guy.
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Oh God." I blink at the mirror. "It looks like I've been vomited on by an inkwell."
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Is there a chance if your Lola ?" " Only if the other person is Cricket"
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Giveaway T-shirts stretched over monstrous beer bellies. Puffy NFL jackets and porky jowls. Granted, I'm in a bowling alley,but the differences between Americans and Parisians are shocking.I'm ashamed to see my country the way the French must see us. Couldn't these people have at least brushed their hair before leaving their houses? "I need a licorice rope," Cherrie announces. She marches toward the snack stand,and all I can think The thou..
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Would you rather be great at something you like, or just ok at something you love?
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There sure are a lot of stairs. Holy crap,will these things ever end? Seriously? MORE STAIRS? This is ridiculous.I'm never buying a house with stairs.I won't even steps to my front door,just a gradual incline.
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The rest of it, the unknown... it'll come
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I wish he would look at me the way he looks at his subjects. Because then he'd see there's more to me than shy, just like I see there's more to him than slacker
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pretty
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Because eventually, no matter what the circumstances, he would see the real me. Josh is a beautiful, messy, passionate work of art, and I'm... a blank canvas. There's nothing here to love.
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Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real life magic are enough.
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Life is not about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get" -Dolores Nolan"
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Sorry,Chef Pierre. I'm a little distracted by this English French American Boy Masterpiece.
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Did I ever tell you I went to school in America?" "What? No." "It's true,for a year. Eighth grade. It was terrible." "Eighth grade is terrible for everyone," I say. "Well,it was worse for me. My parents had just seperated,and my mum moved back to California.I hadn't been since I was an infant,but I went with her,and I was put in this horrid public school-" "Oh,no. school." He nudges me with his shoulder. "The other kids were ruthless. The..
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As far as you go, he believes in what he does, and in second chances. He loves people. I'd go so far as to say he loves you." Loved me? "Why? I don't follow the rules. Aren't religious people into rules?" "Rules make people feel safe. But they can turn into judgments. Condemnation is easy, Vaughn. The harder choice is love, and it's one my dad makes every day."
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I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren't the problem. You were never the problem. I should have trusted you, but I didn't, because I couldn't trust myself.
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Solo hay una cosa que no me gusta de el. Ella.
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kiss
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And then I turn another corner, and my chest constricts so tightly, so painfully, that I can no longer breathe. Because there he is. He's engrossed in an oversize book, hunched over and completely absorbed. A breeze ruffles his dark hair, and he bites his nails. . . . Several other people are soaking up the rare sunshine, but as soon as they're registered, they're forgotten. Because of him. I grip the edge of a sidewalk cafe table to keep f..
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love
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She kissed his lips then. They tasted of apples and cheese, of the revelation of things you never imagined going so well together. She tasted meting ice cream, too, melting defenses, herself melting into Russell.
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Girls were supposed to be happy that someone wanted them, as though they were kittens in a basket, and any left by day's end would be drowned in the pond.
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I risk a glance, and St. Clair stares back. Deeply. He has not looked at me like this before. I turn away first then feel him turn a few beats later. I know he us smiling, and my heart races.
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Josh: Don't do this to us. I think you're afraid. I don't know why - I don't know what I could've said or done to make you distrust me - but for once in your life, Isla, take a risk. Take a fucking risk. If you keep playing it safe, you'll never know who you are. I know who you are, and I love who you are. Why don't you trust me?
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I hate that it sounds like a punishment.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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Toph kicks over the microphone stand in a grand, asshole gesture, and the three of them jump off the stage. It's a little less dramatic when they have to come right back to take apart their stuff before the next band comes on.
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But, for me, yes. I have to be with Anna. But this is something you have to figure out on your own.
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Stephanie Perkins |
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Es posible que mi casa sea una persona y no un lugar?
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