Justina Chen Short Quotes

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Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.

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You know, there are easier ways to meet a guy than to run him over.

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You know, sometimes the most direct route isn't the right one. - Jacob

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If there was one thing I refused to be, it was an insignificant footnote in some boy's history.

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Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

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He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

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You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

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What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

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But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

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What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

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My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither.

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Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

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Inertia is so easy—don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.

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Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark, my world expanded by a few freeing degrees.

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