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“My father's attitude was that this was but an inevitable phase of my growing up and he affected to take it lightly. But beneath his jocular, boys-together air, he was at a loss, he was frightened. ...”
“When you find the one, when you share the spark of kismet, then it becomes inconceivable to walk through life with anyone else.”
“There were the signed, spiral-bound Spirit-in-the-Woods yearbooks from three summers in a row and the aerial photograph of everyone at camp the second summer. In it, Ethan's feet were planted on Ju...”
“She leans over the desk to write and even though I feel bad for doing it, I watch her body as she does. Her shirt lifts just a little as shes bending over and whether shes aware of it or not, her l...”
“The damage and destruction from the soft brush of pen on paper, a minuscule twitch of muscles at the end of manicured fingers, and people's lives forever altered.”
“Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.”
“What can I do? his gaze on me was intense, like I was some sort of love guru or something. I almost laughed out loud at how unqualified I was for that position.”
“I was not a believer in instalove. So said the rational part of my brain.”
“Whuppins were like kid taxes we paid with our behinds.”
“I push through physical pain. Life hurts. I enjoy the positives.”
“I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.”
“Thinking he knows can be a trap. An ex-professor once told him he had a diamond-hard intellect and hed been flattered at the time. Now he considers the nature of diamonds. Although sharp and glitte...”
“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
“But for a long time, and probably far too long, I had a secret wish: the adolescently romantic idea that there was someone out there for me; someone I hadn't met yet who would ask me on a date and ...”
“I'm a woman, Aleksey. I'm not the simplistic, flawless creature the world expects me to be. I'm imperfect, I'm multidimensional. I make mistakes all the time and I'll make even more as life challen...”
“If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it.”
“Ribs closing on his heart, Will battled internal sirens whose song he couldnt yet decipher. During his childhood, sin had been such an abstract word. It denoted getting your Sunday best dirty and t...”
“Bill suited the action to the word, getting up and leaning over the handlebars and pumping the pedals at a lunatic rate. Looking at Bill's back, which was amazingly broad for a boy of eleven-going-...”
“It is hard to be true to yourself because it is hard to be yourself.”
“Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity.”
