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"Logically, I understand that it wasn't Edward's fault my family fell apart after he left. But when you're eleven years old, you don't give a flip about logic. You just really miss holding your big brother's hand."
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"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."

"If you lack the humility to go back and tie up the loose ends in your past, then be prepared to forever be haunted by her ghosts, all of whom will come into your present and your future- staining everything and everyone with their leftover emotional and mental garbage. Humility is the master key that can get you out of all your cages; why do you choose your ego and stay in your prisons?"

"Your life should reflect your heart."

"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."

"I have lived my life backwards as compared to my peers. Everyone did incredibly stupid things as teenagers and pre-teens. I didn't. I was the one telling everybody that they were incredibly stupid. Now that they are all past that stage and we are all much older- I am the one doing incredibly stupid things. I have figured that I've earned that right, by now! You have to earn the right to be stupid."

"Mother said, haven't you seen older boys of your age, that you should take your rotten hands and play with my son's penis? I held my mouth, and i really stiffled a giggle. Now i understood the bloody vexation and the reckless act performed by our housegirl. She was fondling my infant part, and i knew she was horny and lost in the act."

"I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles."

"Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference!"
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"So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream."

"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it."

"A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up."

"I sigh. "But if you'd talked to Jules-if she could hear you . . . My voice trails off."Then you wouldn't feel quite so crazy? Oliver asks gently. "Can't you believe in me, if I believe in you?"

"Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?"
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