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Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing de...more

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She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror ...more

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It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

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Will: I've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You'd think they were diamonds.Tessa: Well, they are, aren't they? Isn't there anything...more

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It is always better to live the truth than to live a lie.

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They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

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I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the ...more

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Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. But they had not. When he saw her, he wanted to be...more

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Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

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You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

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Will. For a moment her heart hesitated. She remembered when Will had died, her agony, the long nights alone, reaching across the bed every morning whe...more

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It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be unique. But I begin to think I was never meant for an easy road.

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One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

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I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen waterfall, freeing a torrent. We were engaged, Tessa. ...more

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There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.