"I tried--I swear I tried. But you didn't want to hear what I was saying, and I used that as an excuse to let it go on."
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"There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain."
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"Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?"
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"Need is never a good basis for any relationship."
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"Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention."
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"She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die"
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"No reason to be angry. Anger just distracts from the all-encompassing sadness."
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"Omnis cellula e cellula," he said again. "All cells come from cells. Every cell is born of a previous cell, which was born of a previous cell. Life comes from life. Life begets life begets life begets life begets life."
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"From the front Rdar announces, "Don't you go talking bad about GoFast bars. Do you want me to stop this car?" "Whenever I eat a GoFast bar," Ben says, "I'm always like, 'So this is what blood tastes like to mosquitoes."
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""You are fairly smart," I said after a while. "You are fairly good at compliments," he answered."
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"But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever."
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"People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love."
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"Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something."
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"People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone."
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"There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water"
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"Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way."
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"All salvation is temporary"
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"Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering"
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"But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky."
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"This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!"
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