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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

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This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.

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Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.

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The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

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It was like those songs I'd heard as a child, each so familiar, and all mine. When i got older and realized the words were sad, the stories tragic, it didn't make me love them any less. By then they were already part of me, woven into my conciousness & memory

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Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.

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But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.

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Call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.

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We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

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This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.

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It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

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The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

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For two hours I'd felt myself stretching tighter and tighter, like a rubber band pulled to the point of snapping. And now, I could feel the smaller, weaker part of myself beginning to fray, tiny bits giving way before the big break.

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It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder―or impossible―to lose.

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Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

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Her life was perfect. But as was often the case, the rest of us were still adjusting.

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You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

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In Anger Management,' he said,'we had to do all this role-playing stuff. You know, to get used to handling things in a less volatile way.' 'You role-played,' I said, trying to picture this. 'I had to. It was court-ordered.

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Well," I said finally, knowing he was waiting, "you make me laugh." He nodded. "And?" "You're pretty good-looking." "Pretty good-looking? I called you beautiful." "You want to be beautiful?" I asked him. "Are you saying I'm not?

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And so really, you have given me no choice but to take you shopping by force. She sighed, then reached up, dropping her sunglasses down from their perch on her head to cover her eyes. Do you even realize how happy the average teenage girl would be in your shoes? I have a credit card. We're at the mall. I want to buy you things. It's like adolescent nirvana. - Cora

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He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

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He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.

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Just because we don't see eye to eye on everything doesn't mean we can't be close.

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Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad.

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Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.

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So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.

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Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.

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It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics...

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There was no short answer to this; like so much else, it was a long story. But what really makes any story real is knowing someone will hear it. And understand.

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I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous...

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