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"She is too absorbed in the difficulties of being seventeen to want to hear the confusions of forty-four."
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"When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure."
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"What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts."
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"When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail."
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"You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun."
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"Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness."
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"If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old."
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"For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, that the world was not made for us, and that, however beautiful may be the things we crave, Fate may nevertheless forbid them. It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without regretting the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets. This degree of submission to power is not only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom."
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"A young man can work at excessive speed with no ill effects, but youth is unfortunately not a permanent condition of life."
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"Sometimes, Gansey forgot how much he liked school and how good he was at it. But he couldn't forget it on mornings like this one-fall fog rising out of the fields and lifting in front of the mountains, the Pig running cool and loud, Ronan climbing out of the passenger seat and knocking knuckles on the roof with teeth flashing, dewy grass misting the black toes of his shoes, bag slung over his blazer, narrow-eyed Adam bumping fists as they met on the sidewalk, boys around them laughing and calling to one another, making space for the three of them because this had been a thing for so long: Gansey-Lynch-Parrish."
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"Few, if any, survive their teens."
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"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
Truth
"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."
Time
"What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive."
Fact
"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."
Philosophy
"To live is to change, to die one hundred deaths."
Philosophy
"People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own."
Behavior
"I never learn anything from listening to myself."
Self
"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."
Reflection
"The changes we dread most may contain our salvation."
Life
"A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name."
Family
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