"Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it."
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"The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all."
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"Breaking up isn't something that gets done to you; its something that happens with you."
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"Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,” I said. “I love it when you talk medical to me,” he said. He stood, and pulled me up with him, and did not let go of my hand until we reached the stairs."
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"Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died."
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"I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy."
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"You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life."
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""Please stop," I said. "You're upsetting the black Santas.""
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"He wasn't perfect or anything. He wasn;t your fairytale prince charming or whatever. He tried to be like that sometimes,but i liked him best when that stuff fell away."
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"I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation."
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"And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way."
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"It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do."
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"I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided."
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"How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book.” He broke out into that goofy smile. “A nd you say we don’t know each other."
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"And so that is the question I leave you with in this final: What is your cause for hope?"
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"You die in the middle of your life."
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"She was loved deeply, but not widely"
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"Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication."
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"According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul."
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""And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.""
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