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“I lower my mouth to his and kiss him softly. He closes his eyes and begins to ease his head against the bed. "Keep them open," I whisper, pulling away from his lips. He opens them, regarding me wit...”
“We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.”
“Be in a close association with your creator, for love will do its best”
“All my life, I've been trying to fill an emptiness inside. But that emptiness...I've built myself around it. Filling it in would be like filling in the empty space within a cathedral.”
“Mom lied. The crust is the shittiest part.”
“According to court records, during the siege at Wounded Knee, more than two hundred and fifty thousand rounds were fired at our people by U.S. marshalls, FBI agents, the tribal police, the GOONs, a...”
“Its okay to feel whatever you need to feel. Just promise me that you will never, ever feel guilty. Promise me that you will never blame yourself. Its not your fault. Youre just a little girl and it...”
“The Bible says we're to be moderate in all things. It's good to help others but not at the expense of your own family.”
“To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.”
“That was the heart of the problem: every choice made sense from some vantage point.”
“Men who attain great heights always have few friends but many admirers, while those who ply the lower reaches of fortune often have many friends but scarcely an admirer in sight”
“We contradict all for which we stand for we all stand for the lie the whole lie and nothing but the lie so help save our lying asses.”
“By dinnertime, Amanda had managed to pick off all of her red nail polish purely out of habit. She was disappointed and silently cursed at herself when she remembered not having anymore to put on. S...”
“Boredom is a form of evil; perhaps one of Kierkegaard's characters was more correct when he said, "Boredom is the root of all evil." Boredom is a preview of death, if not itself a form of death, an...”
“I can't name just one example. Then there's only one.”
“If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.”
“She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees.”
“The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.”
“A good night's sleep counts healthy sheep.”
“Theres one last reason why none of us ever tries to escape. There are a few of us who just dont have anywhere else to go.”
