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I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

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I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.

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He rises over me, a second sun, and fills me with light and heat.

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My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

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When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

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I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

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There's no way to convince her that just because you put half. planet between you and someone else, you can't drive that person out of your thoughts. Believe me. I've tried.

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How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

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Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he's sick of doing all the work during group projects. Sometimes, it's better to sort like with like.

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Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

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But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.

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It was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

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This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.

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Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

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Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life.

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It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

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

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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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