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As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real

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Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?""In the open sea," he said. "Now sh...more

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But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther awa...more

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Just start somewhere," Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits between my teeth. "It doesn't have to be at the beginnin...more

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Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.

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I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a li...more

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Plus there’s the fact,” he went on, making it clear he didn’t need me to reply anyway, “that music is a total constant. That’s why we have such a stro...more

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a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays...more

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The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.

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You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

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it's a lot easier to be lost than found.

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Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found...

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The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, ...more

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The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.

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It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, aspha...more