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"It was so strange, the way that life moved forward: the twists and the dead ends, the sudden opportunities. She supposed if you could predict or foresee everything that was going to happen, you'd lose the motivation to go through it all. The promise was always in the possibility."
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"The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

"Don't wait for the opportunity, create it."

"No noble opportunity is small. Mind small opportunities with noble traits, though they may seem quite uncanny at first sight; in the mind, you shall wonder!"

"It is the ultimate opportunity of a lifetime to try to understand the dreams and desires of a blooming flower."

"Every day is a new opportunity to earn the lost values, but not for an apathetic."

"If you leave your soil untilled, you will not benefit from God's rain. Even if God pours down a heavy rainfall, it will only grow weeds on your land."

"One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one."

"If one Godfather offers you an opportunity and another Godfather offers you an advantage, go with the former."

"When the right stage gets missing, true talent that can grow to inspire, nurture and change lives least gets the right stage to manifest; real deft and dexterity remains latent and people only die with their dreams, abilities and capabilities."
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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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