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There weren’t that many sweets inside, so we ate slowly. Each candy was like taking a chick out of its egg too early.
People gave you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn’t want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you’d be married and you’d own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could. Marika was beckoning from the other side.
When she said sweet things in my ear, they would slide right down into my heart.” His uncle could just go on and on. He was like an encyclopedia of sleazy things and Linus Lucas drooled over every word.
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Childhood is the most valuable thing that’s taken away from you in life, if you think about it.
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The wine would make my feet feel soft and buzzy like hummingbirds.
He just stared at me with his face close to mine. When two people are thinking the same thing, it sends a charge through your whole body. My veins were telephone lines with people laughing and screaming through them.
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Xavier wasn’t put on earth to witness the bad things like Jules and I were. He had been put here to notice lovely things, things that God had created and no one had any complaints about. Leaves turning red in autumn. How when the tide goes out, the shells are left on the shore. I was put here—Jules and I were both put here—to see sadder things. We had to stand in the rain and explain why the world was a lovely place.
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All street kids wanted babies. It’s a terrible kick. You should never start talking about it because once you started, you wanted that baby so bad you could almost faint. I couldn’t resist, though.
Instinctual
I don’t really think university made me a better writer at all. It is my observation, however, that the more knowledge and interesting information you know, the happier you are.
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Twelve is a beautiful and striking age. It’s when kids start talking big and thinking about how they could make it on their own: just like angels right before they are cast out of heaven.
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