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"I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got."
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"Higher consciousness means your self consciousness ceases to exist, you become the ocean of life and a part of the universe."

"There are two kinds of people in this world: those who follow the popular majority, and those who possess good sense. In other words, you can either let the crowd steer you right over a cliff, or you can stop to peer beyond the brink and see how a fall will likely end in tragedy."

"An insufficient level of awareness is indistinguishable from ignorance."

"If there is a wasp in the room, I'd like to be able to see it."

"There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question."
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"They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more about how scared he was. And he told them. Laughing too, hard, loud, and long. Really laughing, and he found himself exhilarated by simply walking the earth. Walking it like he belonged on it; like his legs were stalks, tree trunks, a part of his body that extended down down down into the rock and soil, and were comfortable there--on the earth and on the place where he walked. And he did not limp."


"You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?"


"Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it."


"You are my shaper and my world as well. It is done. No need to choose."


"Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears."


"There is honey in this land sweeter than any I know of, and I have cut cane in places where the dirt itself tasted like sugar, so that's saying a heap."
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