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It´s a metaphor: you see, you put the killing thing right between your teeth,you just don't give it the power to do it's killing.

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What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies th...more

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It’s hard as hell to hold on to your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes

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Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom ...more

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

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Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drun...more

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Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she becam...more

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A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it.

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The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay.

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I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

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At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.

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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightening, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a s...more

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Most of my friends were in band, and most of my free time during school was spent within twenty feet of the band room

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...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.