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"What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did."
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"He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?"
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"Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions."
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"Women love with their ears, men with their eyes."
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"We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language."
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"Have more than thou showest Speak less than thou knowest."
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"Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends."
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"People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper."
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"If you do not tell me, I don't wish to know."
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"The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter."
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"Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!"
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"He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable."
Love
"When it rains," her father said "it pours."
Philosophy
"For the narrative to exist, so that it could be read and reread even if I was taken away. Stories outlive their writers all the time. We know plenty about Goethe and Charles Dickens from what they chose to tell, even though they have been dead for years."
Literature
"Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either."
Life
"I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way."
Family
"Go fuck yourself Judge.""Motion denied." answers the judge dryly."
Justice
"It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids."
Family
"I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend."
Success
"People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen."
Faith
"The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow."
Love
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