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"I know. I'm sorry.' And the bizarre part is that I really am. I want to be good, to use the right fork and wear a pretty linen dress to breakfast. I want to be the girl in the pictures upstairs. But I can't be. That girl is dead."
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"You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that's what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and sadly, you know that what you did wasn't worth what you lost."
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"The dead person once had a life! This is a misery?"
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"Sadness is a grieve spirit. But Sorrow is refined the soul."
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"Jay replied to the bird, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, my little bird. I'm sorry for leaving you alone. I'm sorry for hiding you away. Only now do I realize how much I've missed you."
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"One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different."
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"I...will never...regret you."
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"One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me."
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"Regrets are a terrible thing to live with but, if we take a good look at them, some are not regrets at all, they're situations that taught us a valuable lesson. Don't be so hard on yourself it's not a perfect world."
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"There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away."
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"Our regrets want to bring back many things we leave behind."
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"I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr.Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two."
Hope

"Tell Suzie she's a lucky cat.' Have sexier words ever been spoken?"
Desire

"There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it."
Emotion

"As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way."
Youth

"The hallway felt like time itself, and Patricia Buckingham and I were standing at opposite ends-her looking back on all she'd seen, me wondering what lay ahead."
Reflection

"I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You."
Humor

"Hope is a delicate thing. A dangerous thing."
Hope

"Even at the Gallagher Academy, they don't teach you to break somebody's heart."
Heartbreak

"It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth."
Morality

"A mind is totally big enough to get lost inside - to go crazy if you're left with too much time and too much room to let your biggest fears run free."
Psychology
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