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"I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."
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"Sacrifice and "self both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that."

"A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both."

"I'm not fighting for myself anymore.... It makes a difference."

"Be willing to sacrifice everything. Detach from everything to be willing to become more than you THINK that you are. To live differently."

"So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn't be there anymore."

"Christmas is God being relentless to the point that He would die in that relentlessness."
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"Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two."

"Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?''Sometimes.''So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.'But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?"

"He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction."

"Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear."

"I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him."

"Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from-this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless."

"My point is: maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it.But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know."
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