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"I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything."
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"What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are."
"What you need and what you want aren't the same things."
"It is not the fault of the stars that they shine brightly, but the fault of our eyes that they cannot handle light."
"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
"Look around and you will see what others are not seeing."
"It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?"
"Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!"
"Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?"
"When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice."
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"Fracture lines etch the surface of the glass box as if a body fell from the sky and landed on it. He doesn't hear the impact, can't smell the blood."
"I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?"
"I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length."
"If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were wrinkled-paper grandmas and ready for the trip."
"Why are you being so mean?''Friends tell friends the truth.''yeah, but not to hurt, to help."
"Everyone is born a freak,' notes Hayley. 'Every newborn baby, wet and hungry and screaming, is a fresh-hatched freak who wants to have a good time and make the world a better place. . . . Most teenagers wind up in high school. And high school is where the zombification process becomes deadly."
"They mean hot like 'I'm too good for you I got my own money don't be frontin' me.' You're more like 'Be my boyfriend I'll make you cookies come meet my dad ' know what I mean."
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