"Lies are attempts to hide the truth by willfully denying facts. Fiction, on the other hand, is an attempt to reveal the truth by ignoring facts."
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"Most loves don't last. But some do."
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"We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved."
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"I can't remember, because I never knew."
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"We fell. We got up. We ran."
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"Suffering is universal."
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"Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest."
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"I could stand up and go to her and kiss her. I could. But there is still too much to be ruined."
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"She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as a I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall."
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"Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together."
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"Did I help you toward a fate you didn't want, Alaska, or did I just assist in your willful self-destruction?"
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"He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a lacquered wooden boat approached us on the canal below. One of them, a woman with curly blond hair, maybe thirty, drank from a beer then raised her glass towards us and shouted something. "We don't speak Dutch," Gus shouted back. One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful."
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"In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them."
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"The minister said, “Let us pray,” but as everyone else bowed their head, I could only stare slack-jawed at the sight of Peter Van Houten. After a moment, he whispered, “We gotta fake pray,” and bowed his head."
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"My regret was immediate and permanent and useless."
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"I told him they built a statue of Schultz, and then he said that a monument is cold comfort to a dead man, and then I said that the statue was built not for Schultz, but for us--to remind us how to be human."
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"The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me."
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"This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They strain against the string and strain against it, and then something happens, and that string gets cut, and they just float away. And maybe you never see the balloon again . . . Or maybe three or four years from now, or three or four days from now, the prevailing winds take the balloon back home . . . But listen, kid, that string gets cut all the time."
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"I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know?"
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"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."
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