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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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Uh-uh, dude. I tried it your way with the dating and the girls and the kissing and the drama, and man, I didn't like it. Plus, my best friend is a wal...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

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I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much.

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The only sentence that begins with 'I' that's true of me is I'm full of shit.

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Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

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I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. ...more

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People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn't bear the though of their loved ones not existing, and couldn't even imagine themselves not existing....more