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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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AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.'So that's Sara,' I said.'Yes.''She seems nice.

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I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot...more

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On some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are.

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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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But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could nev...more

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Once we got out of Jefferson Park, we rolled down the one window that worked so the world would know we had good taste in music.

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I always like routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring.

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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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We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

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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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It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing attainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regul...more

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Standing before this building, I learn something about fear. I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important ...more

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She loved so much misteries tha she became one