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"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."
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"As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."
"It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult, and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one."
"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
"Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood."
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
"Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future."
"He loved me.Noah Hutchins had told me he loved me, and that had made the past week at school absolute hell."
"It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school."
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"We think there's a reason for everything, as if life was supposed to make sense. It's not exactly math. People aren't numbers. Everybody knows life doesn't make any sense at all, so we just better deal with the whole mess. Have a beer. Have a cup of coffee. Have a piece of cake. Go out to a movie. Enjoy the Popcorn."
"I don't know what the exact shape of my life will take--and what the days to come will bring--except i know that i am happy and my heart is still. I know that I have fallen in love with the word surrender and know that I can no longer live in disappointment."
"Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists."
"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."
"Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder."
"What did being connected to the world get you? It got you sadder. Look, the world is not sane. If you stay connected to an insane world, well, you just go crazy. This is not a complicated theory. It's just simple logic."
"I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more."
"Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe."
"I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility."
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