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When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

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My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

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It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They were the conjoined twins of emotion: If you didn't know what was at stake to lose, you had nothing to fight for.

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The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

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Once, I asked my mom why stars shine. She said they were night-lights, so the angels could find their way around in Heaven. But when I asked my dad, he started talking about gas, and somehow I put it all together and figured that the food God served caused multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.

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In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

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I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

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Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.

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You don't make a friend," Jacob said with a scowl. "It's not like they come with directions like you'd find on a box of macaroni and cheese.

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You can blame your ugliness for keeping people at bay, when in reality you're crippled by the thought of letting another person close enough to popentially scar you even more deeply. You can tell yourself that it's safer to love someone who will never really love you back, because you can't lose someone you never had.

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But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

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Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.

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Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

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When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

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She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

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It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

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Never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring... the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

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What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

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As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

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It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

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For someone who can't remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can't forget.

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There's something nice about knowing that i'm not the only one who doesn't quite fit the part.

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In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

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You can widen the feet of a compass, but they are still attached at the top; you can spin them away from each other, but you always wind up where you started.

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A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod...

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It was a catch-22: If you didn't put the trauma behind you, you couldn't move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.

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I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

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I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

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The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

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Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

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