Cynthia Lord Quotes
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It must take some courage to fly, to trust the wind to hold you as it lifts you away from all you've ever known. To know inside that you're heading where you're meant to go - even if you've never been there before. And that 'I hope so' will be enough to get you there.
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Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
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Low tide smells mud-black and tangy, but high tide smells clean and salty.
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All she had to do was tell the truth. This would be easy. I should've known, though. Real truth is never easy -Lily
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If you want to get away from someone, check your watch and say, “Sorry, gotta go!
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It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.
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I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all -Salma
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Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman.
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Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.
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It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.
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Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.
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How else can hopes go but up?
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Yeah, but 'beyond reach' means you want to reach something. It's more than far away; there's an absence. Missing something you can't have.
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Sometimes understanding comes in little drops and other times it rushes in like the tide, rolling everything over as it comes.
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Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!
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Just this once, let it be easy.
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At some point, you just have to choose. And then be brave enough to stand up to the people who think you made the wrong choice.
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Mom says I have to deal with what is and not to get my hopes up, but how else can hopes go but up
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"I wish everyone had the same chances," I say. "Because it stinks a big one that they don't." - Catherine
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If you want to get away with something, don’t announce it first.
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It's scary to try something different when you don't know how it'll work out, but that's when the best things can happen. The things that surprise you and change you. Those things can make *you* different - Salma
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If you can get people to care about the little things, they'll care about the big things, too.
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People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.
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It's hard to think of anything being gone forever. Most things that go come back again, even if they're a little different when they return. But not always, and when something has gone forever, it can hurt so much you start wondering if it would've been easier if you'd never had it at all.