"Were she better or you sicker, then the stars would not be so terribly crossed, but it is the nature of the stars to cross."
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"But monotony doesn't make for painlessness."
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"i know he's been looking forward to this--and i know that i've been looking forward to this. but now i have to stop looking forward and start looking at where i am. it's hard."
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"I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas."
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"The part I enjoy most is not the doing, but the noticing."
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"I always had this secret suspicion that I was special."
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"At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain." I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving."
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"Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I mean, he's blind. So that's unfortunate."
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"She was nothing but good and I was nothing but bad, but then she died, and I didn't."
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"She never liked me much, but she sure loved me"
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"It was psychological trick called empathic listening. You say what the person is feeling so they feel understood."
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"...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting."
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"Nothing to be gained by worrying between now and then."
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"In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that."
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"JP shouted, "TELL THEM WHAT YOU JUST DID TO EACH OTHER!" "Um," I said. "We kissed," the Duke said. "That's kinda gay," Keun said. "I AM A GIRL." "Yeah, I know, but so is Tobin," Keun said."
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"Sorry," I said to the Duke. "Eh, it's not your fault. It's Carla's fault. You were turning the wheel. Carla just wasn't listening. I knew I shouldn't have loved her. She's like all the others, Tobin; as soon as I confess my love, she abandons me." I laughed. "I never abandoned you," I said patting on her back. "Yeah, well, (a.) I never confessed my love to you, and (b.) I'm not even female to you."
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"He missed his imagined future."
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"He missed her like crazycakes."
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"The act of leaning in to kiss someone, or asking them, is fraught with the possibility of rejection, so the person least likely to get rejected should do the leaning in or the asking."
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"You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is."
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