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I swear, if she were a cat she'd be hissing.
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Not ugly for someone her age, but what she's doing with those numbers and letters seem unholy.
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I crumple on my bed. For a second, i believed that what i wanted more than anything in the world had come true. For a second, i believed that my dad was back. but he isn't. He's gone again. he's really truly gone and i know it. i know i'll never see him again no matter how much i want to. The candle in me has blown out and i'm afraid, really, really afraid, because my biggest fear is true. i have to live my life without my dad, my running partner, the guy who taught me amnesty and sang john lennon songs really off key.
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Sometimes it's good to give people something they're not expecting.
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Boys are stupid. That's all there is to it. Boys are just stupid.
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We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can
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Hate is a useless emotion.
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Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose ourselves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.
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I will not be violent," I chant-mutter. "I will not be violent. I am peaceful and good. I do not want to give anyone the finger.
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I promise you. You will survive this. Feel my hand. It is yours now, my queen. I promise you. I am yours.
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Sometimes its not the dark that we are afraid of, but the absence of light.
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They should be beautiful, but I know what they are. They are not beautiful, because beauty is about grace and love and hope. They are all about need.
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I am not 'most' and I am not 'people'.
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I know it's like meant to be and stuff, but I have to wait, cause to truly love someone, you have to work out the things that need to be – and you have to be ready to love them and they, you.
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Some things you never forget.
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I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is—she’s a hero.
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Is everyone as wrong about me as I am about them?
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I do a victory dance worthy of any NFL running back. Uh-huh.
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That's what people who love you do: they hold you and lie. They tell you that you're worthy, that everything will be all right, and they do that even when you both know without a doubt that this is not true, that is it nowhere near the truth.
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"You were going to sacrifice yourself to save everyone else?" I cringed. Then I wimped out.
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Pixies have to be invited in, like vampires. I read it on the Internet." "Well, there you go," I mutter. "Then it must be true.”
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Monsters? Why? Because we admit to the pain we cause? Admit we like it?...
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There are so many layers inside of people, so much soul pain and angsty depth and heart hurt, and some ... hide all this so well that when it comes out in an action as simple as a nod, your entire world shifts a little bit on its axis.
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Zara. We all need to rescue and we all need to be rescued.