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"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."

"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"

"I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. I'd read it more times than I could remember, and although I sneered at the thought of a magical land with friendly, talking animals, there were times when I wished, in my most secret moments, that I could find a hidden door that would take us allout of this place."

"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."

"No one loves us here, let's go to Mars."
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"I could forget that part, but it had to have been true."

"It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away."

"I don't get why prom is like a mini - wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance."

"When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog."

"The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all."

"Often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else's loss."

"Fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor. Fate is a shape - shifter. It's the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think its one thing, but then its another."

"I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn't a final destination. You don't one day get there and get to stay."
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