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Pigeons strike me as good listeners--they discern the voices of mates over the cacophony of the natural world. They move the right way too. A pigeon's head-tilts suggest the kinds of things that I imagine therapists say: "Really?" or "How did that feel?" or "Tell me more."

Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets, Evan Roskos

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It is so hard to leave--until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

Paper Towns, John Green

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I couldn’t keep myself from smiling. I couldn’t. Maybe this happens to you everyday, but I think it was the first time I could hardly wait to show something that I’d done to someone who would care besides my mother. You know how that feels?

Gary Schmidt, Okay for Now

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I run back along the beach looking out to sea, praying to be distracted by whales. If I see whales, I think, it means my energy is fine and I don’t have to bother with Nellie Phipps and her Bibles, but I don’t see whales. I decide that this isn’t conclusive. It may just mean that God isn’t into the obvious.

Polly Horvath, My One Hundred Adventures

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To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.

Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

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As many believe, there is a place above and a place below. But there are also places in between.

Dale E. Basye, Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go

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Make yourselves at home boys. Stay awhile. Oh sorry - I see you already have. Damn ghosts.

Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants

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How will the world change if we do not question it?

Kate DiCamillo, The Magician’s Elephant