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"Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it."

"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."

"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite."

"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
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"I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting - the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part of me that could remember Grace's name."

"Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid."

"Adam smiled cheerily. Ronan would start wars and burn cities for that true smile, elastic and amiable."

"He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years."

"I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move when you make yours. You on the inside, me on the outside. Corr can come from the middle of the pack; he's done it before. It's one side you won't have to worry about." I say, "I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick." Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, "It's late for that, Puck."

"Please just tell me where you are.His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fro being difficult to explain."

"I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?"
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