"And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying."
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"I knew that time would now pass for me differently than it would for him - that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter."
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"It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy."
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"I stood under the awning for a moment, but finally I decided that being in a bad mood with your friends beats being in a bad mood without them."
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"They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father."
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"So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tortoise has moved one yard. And then in the time it takes you to make up that distance, the tortoise goes a bit farther, and so on forever. You are faster than the tortoise but you can never catch him; you can only decrease his lead."
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"Throughout the book, she refers to herself as "the side effect," which is just totally correct. Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life on earth possible."
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"To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved."
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"But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us."
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"You'll live forever in our hearts, big man. That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever in my memory, because I will live forever! I AM YOUR GOD NOW, DEAD BOY! I OWN YOU!"
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"At least I carpe'd that one diem."
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"Just spend a few more months playing video games. That hand-eye coordination will come in handy when you get to third base."
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"If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV shows about models, and hate the color pink, then yes. I am proud to be not really a girl."
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"I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down."
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"You may be smart, but I've been smart longer."
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"Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie."
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"The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening."
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"Nothing really ever happens like you imagine it will."
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"Every second of your definitionally temporary consciousness, you are choosing how you spend something that will not last forever."
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"We only have so long to play in the dirt and ask questions of rivers."
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