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“It would be a decision she made with her will, rather than with her heart, and she would pay a price for it.”
“Maybe those stories did more harm than good by giving us false hope. All they did was reinforce our faith that the world was once made up almost entirely of magic or miracles. But where was that ma...”
“I had often thought about people who lived through strange and compelling times World War II, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement. These were periods that shaped people in some indelib...”
“It was a second. A blink. The flap of a bird's wing, the moment it takes to say hello, or goodbye. So quickly that it made me think of all the insignificant seconds that we throw away. And all the ...”
“I thought about how many elements it took to create the simplest of things - a pink sky an unusually perfect day, a happy family, a deep friendship, a moment of pure delight. I wondered, too, what ...”
“People teachers, other students, parents constantly made offhand comments that didn't mean much to them, but I read something else in their words. A hidden language that told me I was different. ...”
“It made you wonder: How much of our lives was just luck or good timing, and how much was actually choice? How could it be that tiny serendipitous events could change everything? And if lucky events...”
“People — teachers, other students, parents — constantly made offhand comments that didn't mean much to them, but I read something else in their words. A hidden language that told me I was different...”
