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"You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart kept pumping an your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn't. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn't stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried."
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"Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds."
"If you continue to hit your head against the wall, don't be surprised if your head hurts."
"I think people give up, because it's the easy option, but my goodness; why would giving up be easy? Your living your life chasing anything to fill the void of what came about when you let go of everything that mattered? I'd rather fight like mad, for everything that will ever matter, because giving in to anything that doesn't will never cure the dream."
"Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing."
"There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on."
"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
"Sometimes the further away the target, the less you have to try to get there."
"Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering."
"Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself."
"Live in your dream. Refuse to wake up until it is completely over. Then dream again."
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"She existed in her friends, there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them."
"Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it."
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"Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still."
"It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn't come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren't ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal."
"Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn't want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature."
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