"The rules of Panic are simple. Anyone can enter. But only one person will win."
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"The house, the pond, the tree-it was all both overwhelmingly familiar and different from what she remembered-smaller and shabbier, somehow. It was like waking up to find that your reflection in the mirror had aged overnight, or had sprouted a new mole: You were forced to admit that things changed, whether you gave them permission to or not."
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"Juliet!' I whip around but not quickly enough. She's swallowed by the crowd, the gap that allowed her to break for the door closing just as quickly as it opened, a shifting Tetris pattern of bodies."
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"This is what hatred is. It will feed you and at the same time turn you to rot."
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"One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart."
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"If he were less well trained, and less careful, he would say hate. But he can’t say it; it is too close to passion, and passion is too close to love, and love is amor deliria nervosa, the deadliest of all deadly things: It is the reason for the games of pretend, for the secret selves, for the spasms in the throat."
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"I remember a story I once heard about drowning: that when you fall into cold water it's not that you drown right away but that the cold disorients you and makes you think that down is up and up is down, so you may be swimming, swimming, swimming for your life in the wrong direction, all the way toward the bottom until you sink. That's how I feel, as though everything has been turned around."
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"I don't love you, Lena. Do you hear me? I never love you."
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"I've been so used to thinking of what the borders are keeping out that I haven't considered that they're also penning us in."
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"How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?"
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"Rainstorms are incredible: falling shards of glass, the air full of diamonds."
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"The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own."
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"I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa"
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"This is the first day of my new beginning. From now on I'm going to do things right. I'm going to be a different person, a good person. I'm going to be the kind of person who would be remembered well, not just remembered."
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"The most dangerous sicknesses are those that make us believe we are well"
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"There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next."
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"If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love."
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"That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and knotting an endless rope. Then, no matter how dark or terrible the pit she found herself in, she could pull herself out, inch by inch and hand over hand, on the long rope of stories."
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"The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know."
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"Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge."
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