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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."
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Personal Development
"Who would you impress if the world was blind?"
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Personal Development
"Call me Richard. That's my real name. Call me that."
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Personal Development
"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."
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Personal Development
"I have a dark soul, that doesn't mean I don't love the sun, rainbows and things that emphasize the light."
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Personal Development
"Dreaming and loving and screwing. None of these are identities. Maybe when other people look at us, but not to ourselves. We are so much more complicated than that."
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Personal Development
"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two."
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Personal Development
"But then it came to me that who I really am is a person who doesn't need to know who he really is, in the usual sense. What does it mean, anyway - family background and so forth? People use it mostly as an excuse for their own snobbery, or else their failings. I'm free of the temptation, that's all. I'm free of the strings. Nothing ties me down."
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Personal Development
"The fact is no one has understood me in entirety till now!"
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Personal Development
"But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are."
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"A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting.She would make it light enough to float away.She reached over to open the window. To float to her daughter."
Love
"Agatha had declared that her friendship to Georgie still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it."
Learning
"Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress."
Identity
"I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was."
Reinvention
"People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long."
Regret
"It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways."
Storytelling
"But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling"
Dependency
"Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you."
Adolescence
"The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness."
Depression
"Eby knew all too well that there was a fine line when it came to grief. If you ignore it, it goes away, but then it always comes back when you least expect it. If you let it stay, if you make a place for it in your life, it gets too comfortable and it never leaves. It was best to treat grief like a guest. You acknowledge it, you cater to it, then you send it on its way."
Grief
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