"What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back."

Growth, Resilience, Failure, Success, Persistence

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"What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back."

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"So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."

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"It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is."

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"It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn't want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering."

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"It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be."

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"But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential."

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"Silence is so freaking loud."

Silence

"Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."

Recognition

"I mean, it's not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It's, like, part of you for good."

Romance

"He had a nice smile. Seeing it, I felt like I'd won a prize, because he was so sparing with them."

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"She knew I could tell with one glance, one look, one simple instant. It was her eyes. Despite the thick makeup, they were still dark-rimmed., haunted, and sad. Most of all though, they were familiar. The fact that we were in front of hundreds of strangers changed nothing at all. I'd spent a summer with those same eyes-scared, lost, confused-staring back at me. I would have known them anywhere."

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