"The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay."

Nature, Decay, Beauty, Imperfection, Art

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"The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay."

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"I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery."

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"She raised one leg and gave me all her weight as I dipped her. She either trusted me or wanted to fall."

Trust

"He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."

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"I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!"

Hope

"There is not shortage of fault to be found amidst our stars."

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"What a slut time is. She screws with everybody."

Time

"I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species."

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"I liked that he was a tenured professor in the Department of Slightly Crooked Smiles with a dual appointments in the Department of Having a Voice that Made My Skin Feel More Like Skin."

Humor

"My heart is really pounding," I said. "That's how you know you're having fun."

Experience

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