"They took everything from us. Our home, our hope, our future. No one should have that kind of power."
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"They took everything from us. Our home, our hope, our future. No one should have that kind of power."
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"Passion is wholehearted devotion; it is fervor and agony; it is temper and zeal."
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"If you were a storm, I would lie down and rest in your rain. If you were a river, I would drink from your currents. If you were a poem, I would never cease to read you. I adore the girl you once were, and I love the woman you have become."
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"She's not a cookie, or a book, or a record on a shelf. You can't just play with her and then put her back."
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"Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see."
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"People like us don‘t fight for our own hope,” he said quietly. “We fight for everyone else‘s."
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"Grace had learned long ago that the true horrors of this world were other people."
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"Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt... it's all part of being in love."
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"He presses the triggers. And like roses in his hands, death blooms."
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"It‘s not about what I say, right? It‘s what I do that matters here."
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"Have you noticed
all the moments we live
and all the miles we walk
never seem to get us anywhere but dead?"
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"I remember the stars that night. They were like salt against the sky, like someone spilled the shaker against very dark cloth. That mattered to me, their accidental beauty."
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"the insane are simply people who have chosen not to participate in the world in the same manner as the majority,"
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"We need hope, or else we cannot endure."
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"There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don‘t let the hard days win."
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"Why are you crying?"
"Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be."
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"You cannot pick and choose what parts of her to love."
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"There was no force in any world that could keep her contained"
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"It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to him. It was never about belonging to someone. It was about belonging together."
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"I can't change the pain you suffered in the past, but I can do everything possible to prevent the pain you might suffer in the future."
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"I am going to MURDER YOU—”
“No,” he says, pointing at me as he shifts backward again. “Bad Juliette. You don‘t like to kill people, remember? You‘re against that, remember? You like to talk about feelings and rainbows—"
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"Emotions had welled close to the surface, and she thought her heart had never felt so full as it did standing next to the defiled grave of a whore while lunatics sang the national anthem."
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I can now understand why people read,why they like to get lost in somebody elses life.Sometimes Ill read a sentence & it will make me sit up,jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud.I want to reach into the page & tell the characters that I understand them,that they're not alone,that Im not alone, that its ok to feel like this & then the lunch bell rings,the book closes, & Im plunged back into reality
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"Sometimes it's enough to just feel. You don't have to label and articulate all that's around you."
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"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
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"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
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