Gabrielle Zevin - All These Things I've Done (2011)

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My beautiful Win. I wanted to kiss him on every last broken place, but his mother and my lawyer were there. So, instead I started to cry.

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I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.

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Chocolate doesn't solve everything, Nana." "It solves a whole heck of a lot, though.

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Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

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Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

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I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

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I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

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He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

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Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

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You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

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Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

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Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.

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It's a weakness to apologize before hearing what the other person's grievances are. You don't want to end up creating new grievances where there were none to begin with. Another Daddy-ism, if you hadn't already guessed.

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I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

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Lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with the person telling them.

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It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

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The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.

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