"I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves."
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"Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage."
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"You know someone for a while and then one day a hole opens underneath them, and they fall out of your world."
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"Work and pray, live on hay, youll get pie in the sky when you die."
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"He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple."
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"Don't mourn, Organise"
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"The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you."
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"Already, though, she understood the difference between being a child and being an adult. The difference is when someone says he can keep the bad things away, a child believes him."
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"Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked. Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you."
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"Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy."
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"She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe."
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"Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence"
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"The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto."
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"Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it."
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"Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done - cook an omelette, change lightbulbs, make with hugging - sometimes almost made being a woman fun."
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"It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed at one final target, impossible to slow or turn aside, and like the bullet, you were ignorant of what you were going to hit, would never know anything except the rush and the impact."
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"I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters."
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"We'll have freedom, love and health/When the grand red flag is flying, In the Workers' Commonwealth."
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"I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker."
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"What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive."
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