Cynthia Lord Quotes
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Not everything worth keeping needs 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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Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.
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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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If you want to get away from someone, check your watch and say, “Sorry, gotta go!
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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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How else can hopes go but up?
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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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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.
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One thing I know about being in a three-way friendship is that you'd better not let the other two spend too much time without you, or it turns into a two-way friendship, minus you.
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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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Jason tilts his head toward me, his hand moving slyly across his book. Stupid. Speech. Woman.
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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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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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If you want to get away with something, don’t announce it first.
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Good-bye isn't the worst thing in the world. Sometimes it's simply time to go.
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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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Good things matter, even when they don't last forever.
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Just this once, let it be easy.
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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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When someone is upset, it’s not a good time to bring up your own problems.
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Oh, people will think what they think!...Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones who do.
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When you say something stupid, gloss over it with superfast talking and maybe no one’ll notice.
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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.