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"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
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"Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion."

"Overrated is order."

"I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane."

"A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They're all parts of yourself."

"God has created the world to be run by His principles."

"Think about Isis, Jaz repeated. "And Sadie, thereis a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. That's why its name, its ren, has endured for millennia. Don't despair. Otherwise Chaos wins."

"I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos."
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"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."


"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."


"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."


"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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