Stephen Chbosky quote: "When I did a study of all the coming-of-age movies that meant a lot to me, whether it was 'The Graduate' or 'Rebel Without a Cause' or 'Dead Poet's Society,' they all had that timeless feel. None of them were completely married to the details of their age. They felt timeless in their treatment of it. That's what made them resonate with me."

Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring mysel...
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I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
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We accept the love we think we deserve.
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I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
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I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in ...
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Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
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It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't sto...
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Sometimes, I look outside, and I think that a lot of other people have seen this snow before. Just l...
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More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. T...
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Las cosas cambian. Y los amigos se van. Y la vida no se detiene para nadie.
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I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
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Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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I think it was the first time in my life I ever felt like I looked “good”. Do you know what I me...
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I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in ...
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I am below average!
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Supongo que eres quien eres por un montón de razones y quizás nunca conozcamos muchas de ellas per...
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The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn’t think it was very good because I didn’t real...
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
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Когда он понял, что бабушка больше никогда не найдёт се...
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A veces es mucho más fácil no saber las cosas y que tomar patatas fritas con tu madre sea suficien...
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just think it’s bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better ...
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He's my whole world."
"Don't ever say that about anyone again. Not even me." That was my mom.
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Non so se avrò tempo di scrivere altre lettere, perché forse sarò troppo impegnato a cercare a pa...
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I love my mom so much. I don’t care if that’s corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I’m g...
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I read on the back cover that the author was born in Russia and came to America when she was young. ...
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No podemos elegir de dónde venimos, pero sí hacia dónde vamos
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Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones. Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas. Pero, ...
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You see things, you keep quiet about them and you understand.
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Because the song was that great and because we all really paid attention to it. Five minutes of a li...
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All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was ...
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There's something about that tunnel that leads to downtown. It's glorious at night. Just glorious. Y...
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I must have been in the car for a long time because eventually my sister found me there. I was chain...
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So, I heard you're this ninja or something.
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Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to...
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The perfect song on the perfect drive to make you feel infinite.
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As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think ...
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Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me?
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I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I ga...
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I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for thousands of years. Or just...
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The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss ever...
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I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.
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I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving i...
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Charlie, you’re one of the most gifted people I’ve ever known. And I don’t mean in terms of my...
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Creo que si alguna vez tengo hijos y están disgustados, no les diré que la gente se muere de hambr...
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I feel infinite.
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I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e...
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Sam screamed the fun scream, and there it was. Downtown lights on buildings and everything that make...
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I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
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So, that’s what I’m doing until I meet a friend here. I was hoping that the kid who told the tru...
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It was a movie smile in slow motion, and then everything was okay.
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She was a very unhappy person most of her life. She went to hospitals all the time. All kinds of hos...
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It’s like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so ha...
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in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a r...
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So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party
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I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, i...
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It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how t...
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Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.
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Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them in silhou...
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You take girls, for example. They're copying their moms and magazines and everything to know how to ...
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Personally, I like to think my brother is having a college experience like they do in the movies. I ...
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To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything.
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I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what...
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It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt...
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I just don't want you to worry about me, or think you've met me, or waste your time anymore.
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Something really is wrong with me. And I don't know what it is.
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It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't nee...
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I guess I could tell people about Punk Rocky and walking home from school and things like that. Mayb...
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Charlie?'
'Uh-huh?'
'Do you like me?'
'Uh-huh.'
'You know what I mean?'
'Uh...
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And things were back to normal except we were just friends.
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He's a wallflower.
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please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. An...
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We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough
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He's a wallflower. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
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Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Chops"...
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It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.
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Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense.
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And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of...
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I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
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I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.
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Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense. To make this all go away. And disappear....
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It’s much easier not to know things sometimes.
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I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?
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First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes...
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She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to ...
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Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we w...
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Asleep by the Smiths
Vapour Trail by Ride
Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel
A...
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My grandfather was crying. The kind of quiet that is quiet and a secret. The kind of crying that onl...
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Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.
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What's your favorite book?
"The last one I read.
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I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I...
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I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice t...
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The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere els...
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Sam has brown hair and very, very pretty green eyes. The kind of green that doesn't make a big deal ...
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I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are t...
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Everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other
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Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to...
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Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them eithe...
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I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons ...
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Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.
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I don't know if it's better to be close with your daughter or make sure that she has a better life t...
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I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a harmonica.
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As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.
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And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.
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And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids ...
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I just think it's bad whena boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better t...
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My sister said Mary Elizabeth is suffering from low self-esteem, but I told her that she said the sa...
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was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great musi...
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Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the win...
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The radio comes back even louder than you remember it.
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I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looke...
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on that piece of white paper, sam wrote, "write about me sometime." and i typed something back to he...
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Anyway, Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel, Sam stood up, and...
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And then Patrick started running after the sunset. And Sam immediately followed him. And I saw them ...
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And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess he didn't know ho...
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After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just hap...
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Y en ese momento, juro que éramos infinitos.
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É só que eu não quero ser a paixonite de ninguém. Se alguém gosta de mim, eu quero que goste de...
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É estranho como tudo pode voltar ao que era antes tão de repente quanto mudou originalmente. E qua...
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Det är bara så att ibland blir funderande ett sätt att inte delta i livet.
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Знаю, я сам во всём виноват. Знаю, я заслужил это. Я бы от...
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Es que a veces la gente usa el pensamiento para no participar en la vida.
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I asked Patrick if he felt sad that he had to keep it a secret, and Patrick just said that he wasn't...
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My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight...
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It's sweet and everything, but it's like you're not even there sometimes. It's great that you can li...
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She said that by introducing me to all these great things, Mary Elizabeth gained a “superior posit...
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I think on my next birthday, I'm going to buy her a present. I think that should be the tradition. T...
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I want Sam to stop liking Craig.
Now I guess maybe you think that’s because I am jealous of h...
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When the police came, they found my brother asleep on the roof. Nobody knows how he got there.
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Aceptamos el amor que creemos merecer.
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I love my mom. And this time, I told her I loved her. And she told me she loved me, too. And things ...
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As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mea...
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I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ...
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For the first time in my life, I understood the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to...
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The good news is that I read the book, and because of its fantasy nature, I could not pretend that I...
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Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do.
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You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.
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You know I blamed Craig for not letting me do things? You know how stupid I feel about that now? May...
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I know we didn't accomplish anything, but it felt great to sit there and talk about our place in thi...
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I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.
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So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
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I would die for you. But I won't live for you.
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I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they...
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There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach...
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And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have be...
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I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.
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Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What ...
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I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first tim...
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Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you...
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If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.
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I have finished To Kill a Mockingbird. It is now my favorite book of all time, but then again, I alw...
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That’s when I realized that I really loved you.”
She sat down on the floor with me. She sp...
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I was looking at the photographs and I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't mem...
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I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to ...
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I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of
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So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
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I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than ...
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Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and l...
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He says when you're smoking a cigarette with someone, and you have a lighter, you should light their...
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calls her beautiful, but she cannot hear...
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They are all my favourites. All of them.
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Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aun...
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Every time I see this one particular movie star on a magazine, I can't help but feel terribly sorry ...
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I'm trying not to think about it too much because that makes it worse. It's kind of like when you lo...
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And even if she says no, and really means yes, then quite frankly she's playing games and isn't wort...
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That's when Sam grabbed my hand. "I love this song!" She led me to the dance floor. And she started ...
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So, if this does end up being my last letter, please believe that things are good with me, and even ...
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I guess what I’m saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it’s not mine to be familiar a...
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They just knew. And I think that's all you can ever ask from a friend.
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I had an amazing feeling when i finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t...
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But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And...
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You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the ...
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When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was th...
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It's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
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Quiero tanto a mi madre... No me importa si es cursi decirlo. Creo que en mi próximo cumpleaños vo...
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I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong wi...
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When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and kiss o...
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I spent all night working on it, and I hope Patrick likes it as much as I do. Especially the second ...
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I guess when you see somebody in the hallway or on the field or something, it's nice to know that th...
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My dad said I did the right thing. I hope I did, but it's hard to tell sometimes.
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I just want you to know that you're very special... and the only reason I'm telling you is that I do...
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Creo que la idea es que cada hombre o mujer tiene que vivir su propia vida y luego decidir si la com...
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[...] tenho de ouvir Mary Elizabeth falar sem parar de todas as coisas importantes que ela me mostra...
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Y estaba realmente allí. Y eso fue suficiente para hacerme sentir infinito.
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Tal vez sea bueno poner las cosas en perspectiva, pero a veces, creo que la única perspectiva es re...
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Bill said I was 'developing' at a rapid pace and gave me a different kind of book as a 'reward'. It'...
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E quando eu disse a ela que já os tinha lido, ela me fez umas perguntas muito longas, que na verdad...
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It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that m...
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I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three...
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So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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I sat down and tried to write a story.

"Ian MacArthur is a wonderful sweet fellow who wea...
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The thing is, some girls think they can actually change guys. And what’s funny is that if they act...
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people who try to control situations all the time are afraid that if they don't, nothing will work o...
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I’m so sorry that I wasted your time because you really do mean a lot to me and I hope you have a ...
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there is this one photograph... that is just beautiful. it would be impossible to describe how beaut...
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we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.
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just be yourself
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Charlie, don’t you get it? I can’t feel that. It’s sweet and everything, but it’s like you�...
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When to stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.
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The fact that one of these ladies was my mom made me particularly sad because my mom is beautiful. A...
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