
Not a beauty queen. Not one of those. You know the ones. She was real.
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The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.
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Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.
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How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.
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If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.
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***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.
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Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?
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I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
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Stealing is what the army does. Taking your father, and mine.
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As for me, I remained a few moments longer. I waved. No one waved back.
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A young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow
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For at least twenty minutes, she handed out the story.
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It feels like the mornings clap their hands. To make me wake.
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If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.
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We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him.
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I love and hate this place because it is full of words.
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One day, Liesel.' he said, 'you'll be dying to kiss me.
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It's chaos out there, and chaos is what we need.
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Shadows of cloud lurked in the water, like holes the sun forgot about.
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I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.
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