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"Youth is marked by a breathtaking novelty that diminishes with each year of age - until life becomes a delusive struggle to break routines, escape the ordinary, and rediscover the joy of discovery."
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"Do not lose the enthusiasm of your youth."
"You cannot afford to gamble your youth only for fun."
"Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire."
"The secret of staying young is to be simple and happy like a child."
"Dear Teens at Starbucks wearing 'Abstain from Sex 2 Attain Ur Goals' t-shirts: Doesn't it depend on what my goals are?"
"It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures."
"You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it."
"Sometimes, Gansey forgot how much he liked school and how good he was at it. But he couldn't forget it on mornings like this one-fall fog rising out of the fields and lifting in front of the mountains, the Pig running cool and loud, Ronan climbing out of the passenger seat and knocking knuckles on the roof with teeth flashing, dewy grass misting the black toes of his shoes, bag slung over his blazer, narrow-eyed Adam bumping fists as they met on the sidewalk, boys around them laughing and calling to one another, making space for the three of them because this had been a thing for so long: Gansey-Lynch-Parrish."
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"Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him - perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from me (and never reciprocated my nosiness with personal questions of his own with me)."
"Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany."
"I'm not sure. But " unless I'm struggling with the darkness within " I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is."
"My past still haunts me when I sleep, although I saw that - much to my surprise- his does as well."
"The male tax?'Yeah. The tax that men have to pay for not having to menstruate every month. Or risk getting pregnant. Or deal with the physically stronger sex in a macho world Women have to put up with all that stuff, so the least we men can do is pay the male tax and get the tab."
"But despite these and many other differences, Evan and Heeb had become close friends " an improbability that could have been produced only by the even greater improbabilities that brought them together."
"Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance."
"You have to take this with you too, she said, opening a box and holding up a silver necklace with the Syriac cross (a crucifix with a budding flower shape on each tip) dangling from it. 'My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you're leaving and will need something that always connects you to your roots, but also because tonight we remember her."
"I got it! I got it! Heeb declared triumphantly. Evan stopped in the middle of his kitchenette to hear Heeb's idea. 'Sex in the Title.'Yeah, that's what you've been saying I need.'No, that's the title: 'Sex in the Title.''You want me to call my novel 'Sex in the Title?''Yeah. Isn't it great?"
"So your theory would seem to be that lying to yourself is no lie at all because you haven't deceived any third party. And if you then convince yourself of those lies, you'll believe them enough to repeat them to other with the genuine conviction that they're true. 'Something like that, I conceded uneasily."
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