Safety, stability--it's an illusion. It's a false god, Simon. It's like clinging to a sinking raft instead of learning to swim.


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He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens...
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I was eleven years old, and I’d lost my mother, and my soul, and the Crucible gave me you.”
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I'm ending this.'

'No. Come on. It's not worth it.'

'You are,' he said fiercel...
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Goodbye. Just tonight. Not ever.
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Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m...
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I don't feel like a trauma victim. I feel like a house after a fire. And sometimes I fell like someo...
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I like your glasses,” he said. “I like your Simon Snow T-shirts. I like that you don’t smile a...
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Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it.
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I don’t want to love someone so much that they take up all my head, all my space.
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Ben Affleck! Are you sure I can’t talk you into Matt Damon? We could double-date
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I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad t...
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But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to...
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How many people make a career out of writing anyway?' Cath snapped. She felt like everything inside ...
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He's not a monster. He's just a villain. He's not a villain. He's just a boy. I'm kissing a boy. I'm...
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I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisite...
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October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, t...
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When she sat down to write, she didn't have to wade back into the story slowly, waiting to get used ...
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There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her ...
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You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard...
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That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe...
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It's going to be okay.
Right.
Because I love you.
Is that why?
It is, actually.
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Ni siquiera puedo respirar cuando no estamos juntos —susurró ella—. Y eso significa que, cuando...
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I DIDN’T WRITE THEM A HAPPY ENDING BECAUSE 17-YEAR-OLDS DON’T GET ENDINGS.
THEY GET BEGINN...
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I don't even know what it means to be Korean..." he said.

"Well, I don't know what it mea...
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He loved how much they loved each other. It was the thing he thought about when he woke up scared in...
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No se había dado cuenta de Omaha fuera un sitio tan bonito. (Mentalmente, le atribuía el mérito a...
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«Qualunque cosa succeda, io non tornerò mai a casa» disse lei risoluta.
«Lo so.»
Ele...
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What were the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever...
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No matter what happens," Park said, "I love you.
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This kiss had to last Park forever.
It had to get him home.
He needed to remember it when ...
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There's not such thing as handsome princes, she told herself.
There's no such thing as happily ...
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You look like you," he said. "You with the volume turned up.
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Are you sure you want them to meet me?" she asked.

"Yes," he said. "I want everyone to me...
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It's going to be okay," Park said.

She nodded. "Right."

"Because I love you."<...
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I just want to break that song into pieces," she said, "and love them all to death.
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Sit down." He said It came out angrily. The girl turned him like she couldn't tell weather he was an...
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Good-bye." she said. "Good-bye, Park."

"Good-bye, Eleanor. You know, until tonight. When ...
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That's what people say- 'it's not good-bye' - when they're too afraid to face what they're really fe...
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But..." I'm not ready for you to stop being my problem.

"It makes more sense, Park. If yo...
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I just meant that... I want to be the last person who ever kisses you, too... That sounds bad, like ...
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He smiled, surprised. 'This is for me?'
'No,' she said, 'it's...' She couldn't think of anythin...
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Go on and honk," Eleanor said. "You think you can intimidate me with your swanlike good looks, but I...
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She was pretty sure she’d thank him for saving her life. Not just yesterday, but, like practically...
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I just can't believe that life would give us to each other," he said, "and then take it back."
...
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I didn’t write them a happy ending because 17-year-olds don’t get endings.
They get beginni...
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It's our last chance.

No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last ...
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I'm going to tell Mrs. Burt that my mom doesn't want me to do anything that might rupture my hymen,"...
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Puede que Park la hubiera paralizado con su magia ninja, con su toque vulcano y estuviera a punto de...
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He'd stopped trying to bring her back.
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Park stood up when she got to their row, and as soon as she sat down, he took her hand and kissed it...
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Dear Park, I like you so much. You have really beautiful cheeks.
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He's still looking in my eyes. Staring me down like he did that dragon, chin tilted and locked. "I'm...
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