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"I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining."
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"I'd rather be interesting, original, & unique then follow the pack. Revel in who you truly are & be liberated!"

"The world says fit in, the universe says stand out."

"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character."

"You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself."

"Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?"

"As plants do not grow in the dark, never allow yourself to be in someone's shadow."

"Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different."

"Don't jump on the bandwagon just because everyone's doing so."

"The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember."

"Only two unhappy people can be happy with each other, because they are dependent on the 'other' for happiness. Only an INDIVIDUAL relishes in his own presence, the 'other' is a hindrance to his freedom. He doesn't fit with the society, he stands out from the mediocre, he lives in 'totality' and celebrates in aloneness."
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"As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air."

"Way back before you were born, Calla and Persephone and I were messing around with things we probably shouldn't have been messing around with--""Drugs?""Rituals. Are you messing around with drugs?""No. But maybe rituals""Drugs might be better."

"Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast."

"It's rude to stare, but the great thing about staring at a sedated person is that they don't know you're doing it."

"He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years."

"Gansey always thought that, after dark, it felt like anything could happen. At night, Henrietta felt like magic, and at night, magic felt like it might be a terrible thing."

"Memories are like dreams. You remember how you got to the front of the classroom with no clothes on."

"So here's my theory, and this is such crap science, I don't have to tell you. It's science without microscopes, blood tests, or reality."

"His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain."
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