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"Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value."
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"It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid."
"And I realized, that the reason why good things were not happening to me as often as wanted them to, was because I in fact was a good thing that needed to happen. I needed to happen to me, to other people and to the world. And so I happened."
"Whoever has money would have realized that it doesn't bring happiness."
"They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it."
"Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave."
"Man has been bestowed with all the senses, Alas! What a drama, we are yet to know the art of using it!"
"Being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I do, I can't seem to find that door."
"Until we realize that things might not be we cannot realize that things are."
"They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie."
"She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
"Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut."
"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires."
"It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it."
"She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong."
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