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I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that ...

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He looked so much like me, I could tell that he saw it, too, we shared the smile of recognizing ourselves in each other, how many imposters do I have? DO we all make the same mistakes, or has one of us gotten it right, or even just a bit less wrong, ...

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Every moment before this one depends on this one.

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Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!

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Songs are as sad as the listener.

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...people with nothing to declare carry the most.

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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.

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Thomas! What are you doing!" and I gestured, "I thought this was Nothing," covering myself with one of my daybooks ,and she said, "It's Something!

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Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "I can't remember. Which?" "Do you know what those words mean?" "Not really." "An optimist is positive and hopeful. A pessimist is negative and cynical." "I'm an optimist." "Well, that's good, because there’s no...

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In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.

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Fuck You!' [Oskar said] 'Exuse me!' [His mom said] 'Sorry. I mean, screw you.' 'You need a time-out!' 'I need a mausoleum!

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I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.

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She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.

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I know a lot about birds and bees, but I don't know very much about the birds and the bees. Everything I do know I had to teach myself on the Internet, because I don't have anyone to ask. For example, I know that you give someone a blowjob by putting...

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I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

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Young friends, whose string-and-tin-can phone extended from island to island, had to pay out more and more string, as if letting kites go higher and higher. They had more and more to tell each other, and less and less string. The boy asked the girl t...

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She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

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Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.

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