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“Something still exists as long as there’s someone around to remember it.”
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“Love was supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it fell apart at the details. It couldn’t save a single child … So what was the recipe? Was it love, mixed with something else for good measure? Luck? Hope? Forgiveness?”
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“Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?”
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“Alex thought of all the parties she’d ever gone to where the first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wound one day, and heal the next.”
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“What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.”‘
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“I think a persons life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the directors cut-the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way. There are menus, probably, so that you can start at the good spots and not have to relive the bad ones. You can measure your life by the number of scenes you’ve survived, or the minutes you’ve been stuck there. Probably, though, life is more like one of those dumb video surveillance tapes. Grainy, no matter how hard you stare at it. And looped: the same thing, over and over.”
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“Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?”
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“Life was a series of ifs-a very different outcome if only you’d played the lottery last night; if you had picked a different college; if you had invested in stocks instead of bonds; if you had not been taking your kindergartner to his first day of school the morning of 9/11.
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“When I was little, I used to pour salt on slugs. I liked watching them dissolve before my eyes. Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something’s getting hurt. It would be one thing to be a loser if it meant that no one paid attention to you, but in school, it means you’re actively sought out. You’re the slug, and they’re holding all the salt. And they haven’t developed a conscience. There’s a word we learned in social studies: schadenfreude. It’s when you enjoy watching someone else suffer. The real question though, is why? I think part of it is self preservation. And part of it is because a group always feels more like a group when it’s banded together against an enemy. It doesn’t matter if that enemy has never done anything to hurt you-you just have to pretend you hate someone even more than you hate yourself. You know why salt works on slugs? Because it dissolved in the water that’s part of a slug’s skin, so the water on the inside its body starts to flow out. They slug dehydrates. This works with snails, too. And with leeches. And with people like me. With any creature, really, too thin-skinned to stand up for itself.”
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“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, colour your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. You can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist. You can fold laundry for a family of five. Or, as Peter Houghton knows . . . in nineteen minutes, you can bring the world to a screeching hault.”
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“Maybe she could concentrate instead on a pain that made perfect sense.”
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“She’s fine. She’ll be fine. Or at least we’re both going to keep saying that until it’s true.”
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“You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?”
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“It’s like the world started spinning again for everyone else, but I can’t even get back on the carousel.”
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“Or. I hat that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.”
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“I spend a lot of time wishing I could turn back the clock-get to the rape victim before it happened, stake out the house before the thief comes by. I know what it’s like to feel like nothing you do or say is ever going to make things better. And I know what it’s like to wake up in the middle of the night replaying one moment over and over so vividly that you might as well be living it again.”
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“Sarcasm was like a force field; once she turned it off, he might be able to see that she was this close to falling to pieces.”
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“It’s not like on TV, like everything’s perfect all of a sudden. It’s more like, once it happens, you spend all your time realizing how much can go wrong.”
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“‘You like him?’ Josie asked, staring down at her plate.
‘Yeah.’
‘And he likes you?’
‘I think so.’
Josie lifted her glaze. ‘Then you shouldn’t worry about what anyone else thinks.’”
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“If he asked her right now what she wanted out of this relationship . . . well, she knew; she wanted love. She wanted to have someone to come home to. She wanted to dream about a vacation they’d take when they were sixty and know he’d be there the day she stepped onto the plane. But she’d never admit any of this to him. What if she did, and he just looked at her blankly? What if it was too soon to think about things like this? If he asked her right now, she wouldn’t answer, because answering was the surest way to get your heart handed back to you.”