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"Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far - off, happy place."
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"All the men's clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was."
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Personal Development
"Travis: I didn't know they made permanent makeup. I looked like a clown for a month.Connor: Yeah. They put a curse on me so that no matter what I wore, my clothes were two sizes too small and I felt like a geek.Travis: You are a geek."
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Personal Development
"An important part of dressing for success is not only wearing something well but making sure it is appropriate for the occasion or the environment."
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Personal Development
"Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs, some wear one to conceal their age."
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Personal Development
"Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling."
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Personal Development
"In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness."
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Personal Development
"No matter your age, a smile makes you look and feel better. People spend billions of dollars every year to get pumped, pulled, tucked, and tweaked in hopes of being more beautiful. But there is nothing like a genuine smile to transform your appearance and provide an instant facelift."
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Personal Development
"You guys are so... dark. Even if I used flash, I'm not sure it would come out.""Y-yeah," Percy managed. "You guys aren't photogenic."
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Personal Development
"Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others."
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Personal Development
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
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"A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.She would make it light enough to float away.She reached over to open the window. To float to her daughter."
Love
"I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was."
Reinvention
"People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long."
Regret
"It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways."
Storytelling
"But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling"
Dependency
"Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you."
Adolescence
"The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness."
Depression
"Eby knew all too well that there was a fine line when it came to grief. If you ignore it, it goes away, but then it always comes back when you least expect it. If you let it stay, if you make a place for it in your life, it gets too comfortable and it never leaves. It was best to treat grief like a guest. You acknowledge it, you cater to it, then you send it on its way."
Grief
"Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But sometimes when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map."
Destiny
"I know he's a good baby... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man."
Parenting
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