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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

—James Thurber

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I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest.

—Laurie Halse Anderson in Wintergirls

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It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself.

—Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild

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Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

—Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More

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I can't keep doing this to myself, getting my hopes up so high, only to have them come crashing down. I can't keep waiting for him to come to his senses, having my whole emotional state rest on what he decides. What if he never wakes up to how perfect we'd be together? What if I spend another year pining for him — or longer even? In a terrible flash, I see my future stretching out before me: waiting for his calls, rearranging my life around college visits, and decoding texts and instant messages like they could be something real, something true. This isn't love; this is pure torment.

—Abby McDonald in Getting Over Garrett Delaney

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She was the only thing I needed. If everything else went away tomorrow, the big house, all the cars, the money, I wouldn't care. As long as I still got to hold her every night, I would still be the luckiest guy in the world.

—Kirsty Moseley in The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window

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Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

—Judy Blume in Tiger Eyes

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I have a history of trying to fix that which is broken, and I still don't think I've fully learned that people can't be fixed, they have to fix themselves.

—L.H. Cosway in Tegan's Blood

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If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life.

—Donald Miller in Blue Like Jazz

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To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

—Farmers' Almanac

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Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

—David Frost

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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

—Anatole France

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New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

—David Letterman

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I never know how much of what I say is true.

—Bette Midler

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The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.

—From "Taxi

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