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Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

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There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

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An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

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If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

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What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?

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Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people.

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If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?

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Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

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Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

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It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.

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No, honestly, my mouth shouldn't be able to function unless my brain's engaged.

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Life was what happened when all the what-if's didn't, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

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It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix a third party - a third party who knew you, who trusted you implicitly.

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We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?

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There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.

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I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.

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I believe that you can fall in love many times with many different people. However, I don't think that you can fall in love the same way twice. One type of relationship may be steady. Another may be fire and brimstone. Who is to say if one of these is better that the other? The deciding factor is how it all fits together. Your love, I mean, and your life.

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Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

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Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

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I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?

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When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]?

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I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.

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Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

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Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

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Do you remember the summer we signed you up for camp? And the night before you left, you said you've changed your mind and wanted to stay home? I told you to to get a seat on the left side of the bus, so when you pulled away, you'd be able to look back and see me there waiting for you." I press her hand against my cheek, hard enough to leave a mark. "You get that same seat in Heaven. One where you can watch me, watching you.

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What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

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He's not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He's the sort of guy who wouldn't mind reading side by side on a date.

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Maybe if you spend your life pretending you're on a movie set, you don't ever have to admit that the walls are made out of paper and the food is plastic and the words in your mouth aren't really yours.

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Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

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