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"I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be."
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"Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!"
"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself."
"There are many you's within you, but all of them are still you! You are nothing but different you's!"
"Your self-worth is totally different from your net-worth."
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"I while away my time wishing I were someone else when simply being me is the most magnificent thing I could ever wish to do."
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"We think there's a reason for everything, as if life was supposed to make sense. It's not exactly math. People aren't numbers. Everybody knows life doesn't make any sense at all, so we just better deal with the whole mess. Have a beer. Have a cup of coffee. Have a piece of cake. Go out to a movie. Enjoy the Popcorn."
"I don't know what the exact shape of my life will take--and what the days to come will bring--except i know that i am happy and my heart is still. I know that I have fallen in love with the word surrender and know that I can no longer live in disappointment."
"Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists."
"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."
"Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder."
"What did being connected to the world get you? It got you sadder. Look, the world is not sane. If you stay connected to an insane world, well, you just go crazy. This is not a complicated theory. It's just simple logic."
"I'm not a good kid. Yeah, look, I'm just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.A lousy piece of paper. That's me.A piece of paper that's waiting to be torn up."
"Someday, I'm going to have to break some of your rules, Mom.'I know,' she said. 'Try to do it behind my back, will you? You can bet on that, Mom. We both sat there and laughed."
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