"... she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy."
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"Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material."
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"Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business, after all. So I looked him over and soon it was a staring contest. After a while the boy smiled, and then finally his blue eyes glanced away. When he looked back at me, I flicked my eyebrows up to say, I win. He shrugged"
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"When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back."
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"my lungs sucked at being lungs."
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"feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when."
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"...all I have to do is stay in between the lines and make sure that no one is too close to me and I am not too close to anyone and keep leaving. Maybe it felt like this for her, too, but I could never feel like this alone."
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"Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons."
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"I learned that myth doesn’t mean a lie; it means a traditional story that tells you something about people and their worldview and what they hold sacred. Interesting."
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"And I don’t blame him. I don’t even trust me."
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"Hurt tends to drown out sorry."
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"I’ve stopped thinking about it. I don’t have time to have a girlfriend. I have like a full-time job Learning How to Be Blind."
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"I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him."
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"I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person."
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"Indiana,’ he said. ‘They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?"
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"I want to minimize the deaths I am responsible for."
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"Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him."
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"In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself."
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"That was part of her, and you used to know it. It's like now you only care about the Alaska you made up."
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"Pudge, my friend, we are indefuckingstructible."
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