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"I glanced again. He was still watching me.Look, let me just say it: He was hot. A nonhot boy stares at you relentlessly and it is, at best, awkward and, at worst, a form of assault. But a hot boy... well."
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"He's unconventionally attractive and yet coincidentally everything I've ever wanted."
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"You turn me on from across the room, and I'll completely melt if you come any closer."
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"The woman desires the bad boy that is only good for her and the man desires the good girl that is only naughty for him."
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"If there is one thing I have come to believe over the years, it's the notion that there really is somebody for everybody. Every single person is going to look at beauty from a different angle. Every single person is going to be attracted to certain features and characteristics that are completely different than the next person. And there isn't a person on earth that everybody on earth finds attractive."
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"It was my first lesson in the fragility of attraction."
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"Your smile draws people to you as it simultaneously brings out the best in you both."
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"The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned."
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"When a woman is interested in you, she'll let you know; if not, there's no aftershave, gift, or line you can spin to make her change her mind."
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"He was gorgeous, and I absolutely, no question, had to be drooling. After a quick and hopefully stealthy check "big show, I wasn't!- I found myself wonder what color his eyes were. Brown maybe. Or even hazel. Either way, wow, just wow. Deer? Headlights? Hi, I'm Ali."
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"Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames."
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"He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth."
Forgiveness
"Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children's librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I'll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid."
Education
"I am trying to find ways to live honestly and hopefully in the world without ignoring or denying the universe s cold and painful indifference to us."
Philosophy
"It is so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."
Change
"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
Literature
"I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one thing I have always wanted to do, which is to grow up."
Life
"Like many people, I feel like celebrating. Remember this feeling. It is human, and can help us understand when others express bloodlust."
Emotion
"I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore."
Emotion
"And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart."
Emotion
"But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended."
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