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"With you things don't feel right sometimes. I believe you obstruct my healing. What I notice with you is that I look outside whenever I am close to a window and I wonder how many women feel that way."

"and that's when I wondered if maybe falling in love looked like a crisis to an observer."

"how could misfortune follow me so well and why did I choose it every time. I learned how to make a honey reduction of the ugly sentences, still my voice cracks."

"but it was too laborious a task for my intellects to compare the evidence of my different senses, and I found it most easy to believe what I heard, though it was in direct opposition to what I saw."

"Bred up in luxurious indolence, I was surrounded by friends who seemed to have no business in this world but to save me the trouble of thinking or acting for myself."

"They are never permitted to learn what it means to be a man. They are not permitted to care for their children. Among my people, children are wealth, they are better than money, better than anything."

"Above all, the writers would like to express their gratitude to the ACLU for all that they do to keep our country sane and kind."

"Those were beautiful days. And they were ordinary days when I did not feel afraid because I knew the people around me would protect me. And oh, because: love. You don't need to get married to join a fight for more days like that, for everyone."

"it was the first time I realized that life was not fair or safe or even our's to own."

"If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet you will be happier."

"Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table and I've learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get you are left wanting more. Success is filled with MSG."

"In her love for Isaac and for her children, and in her fear of death - especially the kind of death Doro would inflict - she had given in to him again and again. Habits were difficult to break. The habit of living, the habit of fear . . . even the habit of love."

"The villain in the dark room? For every one thousand 'letters' that make up one of your DNA sequences, he has 999 that are the exact same. Evolution has given us all the same tools; we all live in the same matrix of memory, fear, and perception; we all yearn to belong; we all use story and ritual to bind the world with meaning. And before each of us goes extinct, it would serve us all well to remember that."

"Rather than hovering protectively over these rights, doling them out like a miser, we celebrate them and offer them with joy and confidence, as we might a precious gift to a dear friend."

"a complex logical operation that is smarter and more compassionate than we naturally / habitually are capable of being; a machine whose innards apply legal and logical rigor in order to produce a result we must honor, because that machine (unlike us) runs entirely on our highest principles."

"We get our sense of self from our sense of home. We are taught to root our identities in feelings of belonging and community. We are programmed, across customs, to define ourselves by our origins first and our preferences second. But who are you if you can't clearly be identified."

"I am not certain whether or not I believe in an afterlife, but I do believe in trying to do what is right during one's own life"

"But chaos will always prevail, even when its home is taken away."

"I was more afraid of the truth than the lie. The truth would change the circumstances of my life. The lie was static. The lie was peaceful. I was happy with the lie."

"A life of the mind - even a profession like teaching - seemed to most of them prideful in some way. Work was done with your body, with your hands."

"We saved up stories to trade with one another for days afterward, categorized our relatives with the cruelty and creativity unique to teenage girls."

"They pointed to their eyes and then at their students. I'm watching you. All of us had been taught many things in our lives: to do as were were told, to entertain ourselves, to shut up, to be absent. But never to sit in one place and watch something slow and abstract for three hours. It wasn't a skill that most of us had."

"Feeling is the dimensional texture of experience. Without feelings, life is flat, experience is empty, and meaning is elusive."

"If we do, we will find ourselves scraping away the freedoms of the adults who will come after us in our attempts to protect the children they are now."

“In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.”

"Bob Jones believe in justification over philosophy. I believe in questions - and, like Paul, growth."

"What can we learn from the text? is a markedly different question from, Where in the text is my point proven?"

"The languages of words and bodies and actions and looking can be the dearest gift - a pathway to empathy and love. At its most beautiful, language is the secret weapon for understanding how we relate, how we make sense of the terms of our weird world. Or it can be another kind of weapon, sharpened in the hands of the stubborn or the extremist or the fear mongering. Words are ductile, delicate, and loaded like that."

"But this is a part of my story I'm not come to yet, and its bad to be forestalling: ill news flies fast enough all the world over."

"to be sure a love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it."