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So the good prince was a murderer and the evil queen wasn't a witch after all.
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Dogs don't got the problems of people. Dogs can be happy any old time.
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We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.
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You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.
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When luck ain't with you it's against you.
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A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
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We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.
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Because he KNEW he was doing wrong. He felt the PAIN of his actions'-- 'But he did not amen them,' shows the Sky. 'The rest are worth as much as their pack animals,' I show, 'but worst is the one who knows better and does NOTHING.
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And it’s a sad song, Todd, but it’s also a promise. I’ll never deceive you and I’ll never leave you and I promise you this so you can one day promise it to others and know that it’s true.
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Never trust a politician, Todd. They have no fixed center, so you can never believe them.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
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I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.
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A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
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People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.
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Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.
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We are the choices we make.
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It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.
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Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.
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TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.
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Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
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Stories don't always have happy endings." This stopped him. Because they didn't, did they? That's one thing the monster had definitely taught him. Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.
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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
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