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Because the worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

Jude. "I'll Give You the Sun" Jandy Nelson. Page 54.

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There he is. Our boy has returned. He's in the sky.

Grandma Sweetwine. "I'll Give You the Sun" Jandy Nelson. Page 54.

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I know he's taking a hundred pictures but I don't care anymore. A hot series of shivers is running through me as he continues clicking and saying: Yes, thank you, this is totally bloody it, perfect, yes, yes, sodding hell, God, look at you. It's like we're kissing, way more than kissing. I can't imagine what my face must look like.

Jude. "I'll Give You The Sun" Jandy Nelson. Page 44.

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If Mom died the sun would go out.

Noah. "I'll Give You the Sun" Jandy Nelson. Page 20.

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This is why no one hardly notices that Jude does most of the talking for both of us, why we can only play the piano with all four of our hands on the keyboard and not at all alone, why we can never do Rochambeau because not once in thirteen years have we chosen differently. It's always: two rocks, two papers, two scissors. When I don't draw us like this, I draw us as half-people.

Noah. "I'll Give You the Sun" Jandy Nelson. Page 18.

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When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

Jude. "I'll Give You the Sun" Jandy Nelson. Page 15.

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NEW BOOK

I am going to start highlighting "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson, which is my FAVORITE BOOK

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Talking shit on people is probably the easiest way to make friends and enemies in high school.

Greg Gaines. "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" Jesse Andrews. Page 122.

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Theory: People always get fired up when an unattractive girl and an unattractive dude are dating each other.

Greg Gaines. "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" Jesse Andrews. Page 114.

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I mean at some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Detective Warren. "Paper Towns" John Green. Page 151.

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It's a wonderful way to escape. I think I can't stand it and then I just take a pill and wait for sweet nothingness to take over. At this stage of my life nothingness is a lot better than somethingness.

"Go Ask Alice" Anonymous. Page 48.

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All my life I've thought that the first time I had sex with someone it would be something special, and maybe even painful, but it turned out to be just part of the brilliant, freaky, way-out, forever pattern.

"Go Ask Alice" Anonymous. Page 41.

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YOU WILL GO TO THE PAPER TOWNS AND YOU WILL NEVER COME BACK

Margo Roth Speigelman. "Paper Towns" John Green. Page 149

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Paper Towns. John Green.

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Go Ask Alice. Anonymous.

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But real friendship can't be built on sympathy and a hanging-on to someone just to keep from drowning. It has to be built on mutual likes and abilities and, yes, even backgrounds.

"Go Ask Alice" Anonymous. Page 23.

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She wanted me to play out the string, to find the place where she had stopped and was waiting for me, to follow the bread crumb trail, until it dead-ended into her.

Quentin Jacobsen. "Paper Towns" John Green. Page 117.