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"I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go."
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"The less you carry from the past, the freer you are to live in the present."

"Die to the past every moment. You remain fresh and alive."

"It's effortless to let go of self-absorbed people. It's challenging to let go of someone you care about and it's exceedingly difficult to let go of an ideal and a belief in someone because what exacerbates the disappointment of finding out they weren't who they presented themselves to be, is the betrayal of it."

"As many opinions you bound about a person, if you let go of them, you will attain a natural state. For whomever and for whatever matter, you have bound opinions, those opinions will continue to sting you and when you let go of those opinions, you can become natural."

"Stop holding-on to the wrong people. Let them go on their own way; if not for you, then for them."

"You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward."

"When can one attain samadhi (eternal blissful continuous peace)? It comes when one lets go of the things that he loves the most."

"Once that ship has sailed don't hold on to the anchor."

"Let go of your past, or it will keep you from your future."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up."

"They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie."
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