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"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

"Escapers were the cream of the crop."

"I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland."
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"It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be."


"All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real."


"Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said."


"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."


"For once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world."


"I planned my whole future around Adam,' she said now, quietly. 'And now I have nothing.''No,' I told her, 'now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet."


"Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth."


"But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud."


"If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end."
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