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Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

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FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.

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I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even thou...more

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Memory is the basis of every journey.

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I knew there were no ghosts in there, but on the other hand, what if there were?

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He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it se...more

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Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

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Why does she have to be such a...such a...""Go on," I said. "The truth is never cussing, Son.""Such a bitch!

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Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, ge...more

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Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back.

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Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we g...more

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Of all the things which make up our Short-Time lives, sleep is surely the best.

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Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye

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Rings and magazines; keychains and umbrellas; hats and glasses; rattles and radios. They looked like different things, but Ralph thought they were rea...more

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Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.