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We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic...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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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

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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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The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall

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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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You should see it,” he said. “V for Vendetta, I mean.”“Okay,” I said. “I’ll look it up.”“No. With me. At my house,” he said. “Now.

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The marks we leave are too often scars.

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I felt bashful, like I had when I'd first told him of An Imperial Affliction. "Um, okay. Okay. 'Let us go, trough certain half-deserted streets,/ The ...more