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Laurie Halse Anderson

"It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows."

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"It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows."

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"There is nothing inherently painful about being cheated on."

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"The depth of the feeling continued to surprise and threaten me, but each time it hit again and I bore it...I would discover that it hadn't washed me away."

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"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother, really-I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."

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Akiroq Brost

"I miss you something awful sometimes."

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"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

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"There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out."

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"One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!"

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"Clean your tears and stop crying, you are not the only one with a broken heart."

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"I'm not offended until you think I'm offended."

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"My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue."

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"My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it."
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"I'd given him bits and pieces of my peculiar life, but colored softer and funnier than they had been. I'd painted my dad as Don Quixote in a semi, on a quest for philosophical truths and the best cup of coffee in the nation."
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"Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!"
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"Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural."
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"I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just stopped talking."
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"Yes it is, because you can only be brave if you're scared."
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"The night sky stretched on forever above me, the stars flung like glass beads and pearls on a black velvet cloak."
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"I could never hate you, even if I wanted to."
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"I had let down my shields, that was the problem. The crazy inside Dad had infected me, weakened me so that when Finn smiled, I'd been vulnerable. I'd dropped my shields and let myself pretend that somebody like Finn would want to be with somebody like me."
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