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And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we’ll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.
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Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.
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For a moment, he looks back at me, and his farewell is in his smile. Then he turns to the stars. And he is gone.
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Science can make a heart beat. But it can’t make it race.
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I’m not human. I’m better.
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What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together.
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I just wish I could see myself in me.
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There’s a war going on, that much is clear. And I’m no longer sure I’m on the right side.
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You gonna fight for something, you fight for something that you're willing to die for.
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There's a meaning behind blank pages, too.
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The glitter in the sky looks as if I could scoop it all up in my hands and let the stars swirl and touch one another but they are so distant so very far apart that they cannot feel the warmth of each other even though they are made of burning.
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That is what a book is: a million little things, a thousand feelings, hundreds of experiences, all melted together and sculpted into a book-shaped vessel.
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This is the secret of the stars. In the end, we are alone no matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you. Maybe the secret of the stars has nothing to do with being alone.
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I bet when Eldest posed for his portrait, he was reveling in the one thing I can’t stand about life aboard the ship: the perfect evenness of everything.
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And I know without being told that she killed herself. And I totally understand why.
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You could have valued our lives more than your secrets.
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I will do anything to make her happy again, so I give her the stars.
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He's the only stable thing in the swirling chaos.
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I. Can't. Do this. I can't. It's too much. This-all of this-living- I can't. I just can't. To have given it all up and be left with nothing but this metal wall.
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I learned long ago that home is a word that applies to people, not places... Didn't matter to me where I was - it mattered who I was with.