
"I put my pen to the paper and began to write. I'd made so many wishes for so many couples quietly in my head as they drove away, but writing the words out made it seem more real, possible. For them, and maybe for me.FOR YOU, I WISH FOR SECOND CHANCES.I folded it shut, then put it on the wall before I could change my mind, right above Jilly's. As Michael Salem called out to her and she started his way, I crossed the backyard, moving toward the music. When I looked back at the wish wall from a distance, it was a sea of squares: I couldn't even find mine among them. So many things we ask for, hope for, prayers put out into a world so wide: there was no way they could all be answered. But you had to keep asking. If you didn't, nothing even had a chance of coming true."
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"If there is no dream, there will be no hope. If there is no hope there will be no life."
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"Never be disabused of those hopes you believe in otherwise you will go far as far as you can't be."
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"The lightest weight anyone can carry on life's journey is hope."
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"Be brave enough to listen to your heart, be bold enough to hope for the best."
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"Love without hope will not survive.Love without faith changes nothing.Love gives power to hope and faith."
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"If you are still alive, your blessings are far from being over. Keep aiming higher and don't allow anyone or anything to steal your faith and hope."
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"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."
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"The darkest moments of the night herald the imminent advent of a radiant sun."
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"A seed today is a forest tomorrow."
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"I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things . . .People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God."
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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
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"Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak."
Destiny


"The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote."
Emotion


"Earlier in the summer, I'd found the syllabi to a couple of the courses I was taking at Defriese in the fall, and I'd hunted down a few of the texts at the U bookstore, figuring it couldn't hurt to acquaint myself with the material."
Education


"Isn't it weird? The way you remember things when it's gone."
Memory


"I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic."
Perception


"Look, everyone mourns at their own pace. Maybe you're just a little bit ahead of her, but she'll get to you eventually. The important thing is that you keep trying to talk to each other, even if it's difficult at first. It gets easier. I promise."
Grief


"School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives."
Learning


"I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as she tried to make me see that between my mother'sPTA and Boo's strange ways there was a middle ground that began here with my Barbie, Sab-rina,and led right to me."She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you."
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