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"If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"Make them stay."And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?"Ellie shrugged. "I don't know."Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away."
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"If equally matched, we can offer battle; if slightly inferior in numbers, we can avoid the enemy; if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him. Though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force."
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"I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing nets I have learned too many unfavorable things about human intentions and the lack of trust and goodwill; I'm not going to allow myself to be caught, anymore. Sirens do well at singing the sirens' song and dragging vile people to their deaths, and for good reason!"
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"If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"Make them stay."And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?"Ellie shrugged. "I don't know."Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away."
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"The thing that grieves the heart of the Lord is when God doesn't see men who stand in defense of the truth."
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"Being love-filled and beautiful is one of the most powerful defenses that one can employ."
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"You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just BE beautiful, and life will defend you."
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"When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right."
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"If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?"
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"When you love someone you let them take care of you."
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"Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect."
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"The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to."
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"Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth."
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"Isn't that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who's your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning."
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"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."
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"That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt."
Life
"But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?"
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