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Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.David Levithan
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New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for themselves. When the guy at the corner store knows which newspaper you want. When the barista has your order ready before you open your mouth. When you start to recognize the people in your orbit, and you know that, say, if you're waiting for the subway at eight fifteen on the dot, odds are the redhead with the red umbrella is going to be there too.David Levithan
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Maxwell Arbus was the reason Saul lost an eye?" "Yes, " Millie answers stiffly. "But that was a long time ago. Saul has moved on. So have I." Whatever checks I'd held on my emotions shatter. "Moved on?! " Whirling around, I storm at Millie, waving my arms like a maniacal marionette. "I don't care if it was so long ago we could only get with a TARDIS! There is no moving on because it's happening right now! .Andrea Cremer
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Maybe it's better this way-that we keep our darknesses close, hidden in our minds, protected by our hearts.Andrea Cremer
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People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are the memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.David Levithan
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If it weren’t for the fact that he’d been flat on his back in a full body cast, then recovering, he probably would be glad he missed finishing the school year since it meant he’s now enrolled at his version of Hogwarts.Andrea Cremer
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But I don't know when that day will arrive, and it would be too easy to forget to marvel at the beauty in this moment. In every moment.David Levithan
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I assume this kid is “normal” sixteen, like all the rest of them, whereas I’m “life can, and probably will, totally screw you” sixteen.Andrea Cremer