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"When had she stopped being a child? The first time a guy had whistled at her out of a car window when she was walking to school? The moment she started wondering how she looked when she ran, what jiggled or bounced, instead of the pace she was setting? The first time she'd kept from raising her hand because she didn't want to seem too smart or too eager?"
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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
"Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me."
"So I hear we get to go to town this weekend. Want to catch a movie or something?--ZP.S. That is, if Jimmy doesn't mind.Translation: This weekend might be a good chance for us to see each other outside our school in a social environment, free of competetiton. I do not view other boys as threats, and I enjoy making them seem insignificant by calling them the wrong names. (Translation by Macey McHenry)"
"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
"He loved me.Noah Hutchins had told me he loved me, and that had made the past week at school absolute hell."
"It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult, and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one."
"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."
"Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride."
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"Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too."
"You're weak because you're afraid of people seeing your weakness. You're letting shame decide who you are."
"I need someone who can be invisible, who can become a ghost. Do you think you can do that?"I'm already a ghost, she thought. I died in the hold of a slaver ship."i think so."
"Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)"
"Inej placed her hands on Nina's shoulders. "We'll see each other again."Of course we will. You've saved my life. I've saved yours."I think you're ahead on that count."No, I don't mean in the big ways. Nina's eyes took them all in. "I mean the little rescues. Laughing at my jokes. Forgiving me when I was foolish. Never trying to make me feel small. It doesn't matter if it's next month, or next year, or ten years from now, those will be the things I remember when I see you again.Kaz offered his gloved hand to Nina. "Until then, Zenik."Count on it, Brekker. They shook."
"Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return."
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