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"I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos."
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"Overrated is order."
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"God has created the world to be run by His principles."
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"2006 is all about getting your house in order and I mean that metaphorically."
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"Order doesn't come by itself."
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"In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other."
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"We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another."
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"Rules meant order. Without them they'd be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder."
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"But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential."
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"There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist."
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"The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone."
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"And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return."
Love
"Everything else is nothing."
Philosophy
"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."
Life
"What did Saturday's used to taste like? Like eggs and fried ham and the bitter smell of hair in heavy rollers. Like long quiet hours and making up after a fight. Like ointment and bruising. Like waiting, especially, for something - anything - to happen."
Nostalgia
"I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of."
Connection
"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?"
Identity
"He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction."
Friendship
"You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes"."
Happiness
"I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."
Sacrifice
"Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel."
Emotions
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