"There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect."
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"If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list."
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"Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away."
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"Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days."
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"Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books."
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"It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind."
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"The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it."
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"Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone."
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"Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November."
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"Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose."
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"Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable."
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"The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets."
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"Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn't mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating."
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"Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities."
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"We spend so much of our passion on our first love. I'm not convinced that it-passion-is one of those things that you have an endless amount of-like happiness or sadness. I could be happy all day. I could be sad all day. But I'm not so sure I'll ever love like that again."
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"Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit."
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"People like to complain about the state of contemporary literature, but I can only assume they don't read it very widely."
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