"YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love."
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"Coal miners don't get coal miners' block."
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"Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both."
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"Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou"
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"The Colonel led all the cheers. Cornbread!" he screamed. CHICKEN!" the crowd responded. Rice!" PEAS!" And then, all together: "WE GOT HIGHER SATs." Hip Hip Hip Hooray!" the Colonel cried. YOU'LL BE WORKIN' FOR US SOMEDAY!"
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"Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person."
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"She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind."
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"what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it"
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"I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment."
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"If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?"
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"We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl."
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"Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are."
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"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with."
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"By saying you don’t care if the world falls apart, in some small way you’re saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms."
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"I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience."
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"And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she would laugh."
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"Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as the only person in the world not to hate, and so we spent all this time together just ragging on everyone, you know?"
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"Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is."
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"sometimes it's okay to cheat on things - but don't ever cheat on people. because once you start, it's very hard to stop. you find out how easy it is to do."
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"I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice."
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