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Just the word beautiful was seductive - but what did it really mean? Beauty was a soft word that ached with possibility, pliant as dough. You could not presume to define it, she realized, because the very idea of beauty and all it represented was a subjective thing - in the eye of the beholder - but that wasn't really true anymore.Elizabeth Brundage
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As corny as it sounds, Gallagher said, life is very long. You're supposed to mess up when you're young and other people sometimes benefit from your mistakes-as you did in this case. But things rarely stay the same. People grow up and change. They move on.Elizabeth Brundage
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You couldn't teach kindness, she thought. It was something you were born with. People either had it or they didn't.Elizabeth Brundage
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Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.Elizabeth Brundage