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I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

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When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.

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Life tries to crush her, but only succeeded in making a diamond.

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What a slut time is. She screws with everybody.

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How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

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He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking at me like that?"Augustus half smiled. "Because yo...more

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I feel like how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do. And I got so backwards...more

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Maybe life is not about accomplishing some bullshit markers.

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You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don’t even know why you need it; you just think you do

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I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.

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People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone.

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What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think t...more

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...stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also theonly way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.

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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the...more

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Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? I mean, I've always felt like the Katherines dump me right...more