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Passionate. ☼ Taking bits and pieces of word awesomeness out of context with a side of some random stuff.

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26. The Boat Ashore

She laughed for his sake, something she’d never done. Giving away another piece of herself just to have someone else.

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Time ensures children never know their parents young.

Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

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16. Reading

Tate: You can read, Kya. There will never be a time again when you can't read.

Kya: It ain't just that. I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.

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DAMMIT WHY AM I SO FREAKIN AWKWARD AND HILARIOUS AND SEXY AND HAVE THE LOOKS OF AN OBESE POTATO.

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Nate: Marched to the beat of a different drum, did she?

Jonathan: She marched to the beat of an entirely different band. One you've never heard of and under no circumstances ever expected to like.

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How you find love means nothing. It's what you do with it when you see it that does.

Julie (Flat-Out Matt, Jessica Park)

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Let your world as you know it be blown to bits because you fall heart-crushingly head-over-heels for someone.

Finn Watkins (Flat-Out Matt, Jessica Park)

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...he had gone down a rabbit hole and was now having the most messed-up tea party of all. Alice had nothing on him.

Matt (Flat-Out Matt, Jessica Park)

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Sweetheart, Matt is not the smoothest of young men, but his heart was in the right place. Matt's execution might have been disastrous, but don't forget about his heart.

Roger Watkins (Flat-Out Love, Jessica Park)

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It must have been rough competing with Finn before, and now that Finn is gone, it's probably even worse for him. You can't beat out memories of the dead.

Roger Watkins (Flat-Out Love, Jessica Park)

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I'm too sad to yell, I don't get to be angry with you, do I? Your brother died, so I don't get to be angry.

Julie (Flat-Out Love, Jessica Park)

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Julie: I love Celeste, but she's hurting you, isn't she?

Matt: Don't say that. I would sell my soul for my sister.

Julie: I know you would.

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There was nothing more unpleasant than the overwhelming effect caused by jealousy, and she couldn’t deny that typing out the word girlfriend had made her stomach knot up, her breathing change, and her brain swirl.

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Matt: She's too fragile.

Julie: She's fragile because you let her be fragile.

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Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.

Celeste Watkins (Flat-Out Love, Jessica Park)

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Death doesn't really feel eventual or inevitable. It still feels... avoidable somehow. But it's not.

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Nora Ephron

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Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know, it's everywhere.

I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman, Nora Ephron