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I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.Morgan Matson
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The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.Morgan Matson
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The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry, when I was least expecting her.- Roger SullivanMorgan Matson
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Roger, he has a chain saw, " I hissed. "I am not going to die in Kentucky!Morgan Matson
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And we were kissing like drowning people breathe-- like suddenly we'd discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.Morgan Matson
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You + Mesaw this... A M E R I C A Thank you for finding America with meMorgan Matson
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Tomorrow will be better.”“ But what if it’s not?” I asked.“ Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.Morgan Matson
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He stood and looked at me for a moment, taking in my outfit. "You look hot."" What? Me?" I stammered, completely flummoxed." Yeah, " he said, still looking at me." Oh. Um, thank you. I mean, not that you don’t, but I’m not sure that you should– I mean …""Oh, no, " Roger said quickly, and I could see that he was blushing again. "No. I mean– I meant what you’re wearing. Are you going to be too warm?.Morgan Matson
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All I could determine was that it must have been a nice thing to see if it was a house you were thinking about moving into. But not so nice if it was the house you were moving out from. I could practically hear Mr Collins, who had taught my fifth-grade English class and was still the most intimidating teacher I'd ever had, yelling at me. "Amy Curry, " I could still hear him intoning, "never end a sentence with a preposition! " Irked that after six hears he was still mentally correcting me, I told the Mr. Collins in my head to off fuck.Morgan Matson
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It was like a bomb had just gone off in the kitchen, and instead of cleaning up the rubble, people were stepping around it and eating mini-quiche.Morgan Matson
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Terrible things happened when you were least expecting them... But it seemed that wonderful things could happen too. You could be forced to take a trip, not knowing who you would meet. Not knowing that it would change your life.Morgan Matson
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It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.- LeonardMorgan Matson
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It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.Morgan Matson
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And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.Morgan Matson
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You don't have to go away to know where your home is.Morgan Matson
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You get up, you dress up, you show up. And usually have a pretty good time by the end of it.Morgan Matson
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...You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard...Morgan Matson
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It was kind of like what I imagined it would be like to drink a forest fire.Morgan Matson
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And sometimes, " she added, in a slightly hushed tone, like she was letting me in on a secret, "if you don't feel great on the inside, just look great on the outside, and after a while you won't be able to tell the difference.Morgan Matson
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I know, ' I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we'd ended up taking, and how much better ours had been.Morgan Matson