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"It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it."
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"When a hypocrite or a wicked leader is in power, anyone that becomes popular or stands out easily becomes a prey."
"Even if you are not evil, pretend to be. It will put off some abuse."
"Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors."
"When you focus on miracles you will be manipulated."
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"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."
"We always underestimated our own participation in magic. That is, we thought of magic as something that existed with or without us. But that's not true. Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them, and then deem them so. Ryan and Avery will say the first moment they spoke, the first moment they danced, was magical. But they were the ones-no one else, nothing else-who gave it the magic. We know. We were there. Ryan opened himself to it. Avery opened himself to it. And the act of opening was all they needed. That is the magic."
"As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks.And the reply comes instantly:For anything."
"We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough."
"I read it a lot, whenever I find it in a library. Partly because I find new things every time I read it, but also because these BOOKS are always there for me. All of them are there for me. My life changes all the time, but books don't change. My reading of them changes-I can bring new things to them each time. But the words are familiar words. The world is a place you've been before, and it welcomes you back."
"It says if you mess up or make the wrong choice, you just have to keep at it until you do it right."
"What are your interests?""Your son in my room," I said."Excuse me?""The sun and the moon," I said. "Astronomy."
"In an age of guidebooks, websites, and radio waves, discovery has nearly become a lost feeling. If anything, it is now a matter of expectations to surpass-rarely a matter of unexpected wonderment. It is unusual to find a situation that appears without word, or a place that was not known to be on the road."
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