"It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations."
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"I hated being careful, too - or wanted to, at least."
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"I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you like to marry a woman who has had plastic bags needlessly inserted into her breasts?', that fifteen year old boy would probably be like, 'what's plastic?'."
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"Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich"
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"The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness."
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"Can I ask you about Caroline Mathers?" "And you say there's no afterlife."
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"He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight."
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"Caroline is no longer sufffering from personhood."
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"You can’t know, sweetie, because you’ve never had a baby become a brilliant young reader with a side interest in horrible television shows, but the joy you bring us is so much greater than the sadness we feel about your illness."
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"He wanted to draw out the moment before the moment- because as good as kissing feels, nothing feels as good as the anticipation of it."
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"But that wasn't quite right. I called it a nine because I was saving my ten. And here it was, the great and terrible ten, slamming me again and again as I lay still and alone in my bed staring at the ceiling, the waves tossing me against the rocks then pulling me back out to sea so they could launch me again into the jagged face of the cliff, leaving me floating faceup on the water, undrowned."
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"All hurt is brain hurt."
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"It's almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now."
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"Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes."
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"Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS)."
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"Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly."
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"People always get used to beauty though."
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"I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice."
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"He responded a few minutes later. Okay. I wrote back. Okay. He responded: Oh, my God, stop flirting with me!"
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"If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers."
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