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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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"To be worthy of recognition, be humble."
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"Not to recognize God is to oppose the kingdom of love."
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"Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace.""Whatever," the god said."
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"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."
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"She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was."
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"Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?"
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"Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause."
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"Don't worry about getting credit, do the work anyway."
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"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."
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"Your work may not be noticed by people, but there is One Who sees everything you are doing."
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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
Truth
"Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak."
Destiny
"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."
Order
"The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote."
Emotion
"Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."
Emotion
"Earlier in the summer, I'd found the syllabi to a couple of the courses I was taking at Defriese in the fall, and I'd hunted down a few of the texts at the U bookstore, figuring it couldn't hurt to acquaint myself with the material."
Education
"Isn't it weird? The way you remember things when it's gone."
Memory
"I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of them, some people just defy all logic."
Perception
"What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back."
Growth
"I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome."
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