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"He's throwing everything he can into the air on the chance that something might take flight. And we're the smallest, weakest bird."
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"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
"The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk."
"Lust and flirting are dangerous because at first they are not noticeable."
"Any time you put yourself on the line, you risk (and maybe fear) failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid-none of which are comfortable."
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"What are the gifts given to we who live Below?'Long life, health, strength, and happiness.'What is the curse of those who live Above?'Short life, illness, weakness, and misery.'Is this fair?'It is fair. It is as the gods decreed at the time of the Divide. Some have to stay Above so that humanity might survive Below.'Then give thanks."
"So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant."
"At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about myself. I did not expect to love his words. I did no expect to find myself in the."
"Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say."
"It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel."
"No,' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been."
"But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it's not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me."
"My mother looks at me with love and understanding, and I realize: she knows what my father did. She knows what I want. She knows and even though she would not destroy a tissue sample or love someone who is not her Match, she still loves us, even though we have done those things."
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