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"I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew myself. But then again, isn't that a best friend's job?"
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"Shug say, What, too shamefaced to put singing and dancing and fucking together? She laugh. That's the reason they call what us sing the devil's music. Devils love to fuck."
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"Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and quite a few piercings glinting in sunlight. They had invited her to sit with them while they all finished up their lunches before film seminar. Tibby knew that they had invited her largely because she had a ring in her nose. This bugged her almost as much as when people excluded her because she had a ring in her nose."
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"We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not."
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"When you're on a Ferris wheel all anyone ever talks about is being on the Ferris wheel and the view from the Ferris wheel and whether the Ferris wheel is scary and how many more times it will go around. Dating is like that. Nobody who's doing it ever talks about anything else. I have no interest in dating."
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"Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them - than when you are alone."
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"We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail."
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"They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep."
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"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others."
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"Four days, eight days, twelve days passed, and he was invited to teas, to suppers, to lunches. They sat talking through the long green afternoons - they talked of art, of literature, of life, of society and politics. They ate ice creams and squabs and drank good wines."
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"We are what no one wants to miss at the party. I act delighted, but I have zero interest in these Capitol people. They are only distractions from the food."
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"I came back, Uncle Eddie. Last year, after the Henley, I could have gone to any school in the world -- I could have done anything, but I came back.' 'You ran away, Katarina.' 'And now I'm back.' 'You're still running."
Identity

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

"You look disappointed to see me, Zach,' Macey teased. 'Don't you like my jacket?"
Humor

"I didn't know there were this many math guys,' Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse.Kat cleared her throat. 'And women,' he added. 'Math women."
Society

"Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side."
Life

"Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie."
Deception

"Nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies)."
Reality

"There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night.Hit.Panic.Flail.Freeze."
Youth

"Don't let two men fall in love with you, girls. It's not the sort of thing that ends well.'-Uncle Charles."
Warning

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