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My chaperone looked at me like I should aha! back, but all I could m...
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Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down o...
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There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If...
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It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It l...
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But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed perso...
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They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I...
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It felt like the wrong thing to do, standing at the wrong door in the wrong place. We did it anyway....
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Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except p...
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It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn’t know...
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The map is not the territory.
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I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.
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Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.
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You must be all a-tingle with excitement.'
'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I...
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I thought maybe if I stared hard enough, I could see the lights of the city I had left so very far b...
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The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that librarie...
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There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap,...
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I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, becau...
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There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frigh...
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Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because chi...
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So you’re reluctant, I said to myself. Many, many people are reluctant. It’s like having feet. I...
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The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drif...
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A mystery is solved with a story.
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I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get ...
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You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage ...
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Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will e...
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There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of pap...
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Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it befo...
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They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire...
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How clever of you to figure that out,' said a voice at the top of the stairs, and Violet, and Klaus ...
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I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do...
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There is nothing wrong with crying at the end of a long day.
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being skeptical is a good thing for a journalist, because it means you don't completely trust anyone...
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Perhaps I had been in another world before I was born, and did not remember it, or perhaps I would s...
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There are many mysteries I have never solved, and the hair of my chaperone is perhaps my most curiou...
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It is never seven that you count to, before you do something difficult. It is never at the count of ...
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The three of us stood there for a minute. I don’t know what Stew was thinking, and the filing cabi...
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When you need a haircut, it looks like you have no one to take care of you.
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I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, ...
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They can teach you anything. That doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it.
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The trick to following someone without getting caught is to follow somebody who doesn't think they'r...
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I thought the war was a simple matter, with one side good and the other evil. But the more I read, t...
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Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get yo...
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Of course you can trust me," Jake Hix said. "We read the same books.
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It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.
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Nobody should feel pain all by themselves.
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There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matt...
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It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought,...
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