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kmwords · 3 years
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Pigeons strike me as good listeners--they discern the voices of mates over the cacophony of the natural world. They move the right way too. A pigeon's head-tilts suggest the kinds of things that I imagine therapists say: "Really?" or "How did that feel?" or "Tell me more."
Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets, Evan Roskos
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kmwords · 11 years
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It is so hard to leave--until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
Paper Towns, John Green
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kmwords · 11 years
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I couldn’t keep myself from smiling. I couldn’t. Maybe this happens to you everyday, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I’d done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?
Gary Schmidt, Okay for Now
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kmwords · 11 years
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I run back along the beach looking out to sea, praying to be distracted by whales. If I see whales, I think, it means my energy is fine and I don’t have to bother with Nellie Phipps and her Bibles, but I don’t see whales. I decide that this isn’t conclusive. It may just mean that God isn’t into the obvious.
Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures
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kmwords · 11 years
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To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.
Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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kmwords · 11 years
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As many believe, there is a place above and a place below. But there are also places in between.
Dale E. Basye, Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go
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kmwords · 11 years
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Make yourselves at home boys. Stay awhile. Oh sorry - I see you already have. Damn ghosts.
Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
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kmwords · 11 years
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How will the world change if we do not question it?
Kate DiCamillo, The Magician’s Elephant
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kmwords · 11 years
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The rhyming of rhymes is a powerful form of self-medication.
Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist
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kmwords · 12 years
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If she breaks my heart, no matter what hell she puts me through, I can say it was worth it, just because of right now.
Rob Sheffield, love is a mix tape
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kmwords · 12 years
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She smiled and opened up one of the books on New Zealand. You know how pretty someone can be when she opens up a book? Especially if she has brown hair the color of the pelican’s feathers?
Gary Schmidt, Okay for Now
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kmwords · 12 years
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In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continually, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had reasoned, in that case, that the whole business could be sorted out if only they could find a formula that caused him to hallucinate that he was completely sane.* *This is a very common hallucination, shared by most people.
Terry Pratchett, The Truth
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kmwords · 12 years
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When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
Rob Sheffield, love is a mix tape
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kmwords · 12 years
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…she’s so cool and tough and unflappable, until she goes to a bar and gets jumped by a song on the jukebox…
Rob Sheffield, love is a mix tape
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kmwords · 12 years
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It reminds me of Miss Marietta’s lectures, how her eyes sparkled when she shared the joys of pollination. “We can learn a lot from the plant world,” she’s said. “Survival seems unlikely. The fate of you and your posterity are usually beyond your control. A strong wind. Forgiving soil. A hungry insect. But there’s a certain amount of grace, giving yourself up to the hope that things will work out if you, the plant, just produce as many seeds as possible. With enough work, enough effort, one of those seeds will grow.
Lindsey Leavitt, Sean Griswold’s Head
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kmwords · 11 years
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Back in my seat I suddenly understand something I’ve never understood before. It matters who I am. I fit in the world. I do.
Gennifer Choldenko, If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
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