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“What's the burn scale?”
“She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.”
“Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.”
“We have lunch at ten-forty-five, Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.”
“We have lunch at ten-forty-five,” Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.”
“Didn't you ever have a father yourself? You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.' So I figured it's because I never had a father that I don't want one now. A person c...”
“Einstein says common sense is just habit of thought. It's how we're used to thinking about things, but a lot of the time it just gets in the way.' 'In the way of what?' 'In the way of what's true.”
“And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again. We see all the beauty, and cruelty, and sadness, and love.”
“[she used to say that] each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world like a bride wears on her wedding dayexcept this kind of veil is invisible. we walk around happily with the...”
“Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you wou...”
