"If we restructure things to see that the hero's journey is a degree in astrophysics rather than a journey to star in a reality show, that's a better world."
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"The past feels distant, even when it's near. The future feels assured, even when it isn't."
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"But I will say this: When the scientists of the future show up at my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell the scientists to screw off, because I do not want to see a world without him."
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"You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose."
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"I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation."
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"I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think."
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"I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?"
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"I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."
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"In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable."
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"I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter."
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"I'm not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is."
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"Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start."
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"At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze."
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"Everything that comes together falls apart."
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"People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he answered, smiling. I felt myself blushing. “Thank you for coming to Amsterdam,” he said. “Thank you for letting me hijack your wish,” I said. “Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa"
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"Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken. But everyone has a tendency."
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"Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses."
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"Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them."
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"The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself."
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"I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done."
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