February 2012
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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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“For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it...”
– Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
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“I think everyone always has time to suffer.”
– John Barnes, Tales of the Madman Underground: An Historical Romance 1973
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“Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean.”
– Rebecca Stead, When You Reach Me
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“I wonder what feeling bad means in this particular situation. I can’t...”
– David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
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“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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“You deserve to need me, not to have me.”
– Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors
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“I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were...”
– Sarah Silverman, The Bedwetter
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“Broetry is poetry that’s right for you.
Broetry is a literary chili...”
– Brian McGackin, Broetry
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“I surely don’t measure up to what I’d like to be.”
– Go Ask Alice
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“As we walk further into the woods and up the mountain, we speak the language of...”
– David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
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“I wanted to like people. It worried me that I didn’t.”
– Natalie Standiford, How to Say Goodbye in Robot
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“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“Things to do today:
1) Breathe in.
2) Breathe out.”
– Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story
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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small...”
– Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
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“Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can’t kill...”
– David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
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“Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking...”
– Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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“I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a...”
– Wally Lamb, I Know This Much is True
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“What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes,...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
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“Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and...”
– Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour
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“The pack’s outcast,
The albino we humans love,
Whimpers, wags his tail,...”
– Yusef Komunyakaa, Scapegoat
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“Sometimes I feel like fate is dictated by irony (or, at the very least, a rather...”
– David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
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“I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has...”
– S.J. Watson, Before I Go to Sleep
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“The moon bleached a strip of the sea. We dipped down, down through the squeals...”
– Natalie Standiford, How to Say Goodbye in Robot
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“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of being a Wallflower
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“No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway,...”
– Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must...”
– Kate Chopin, The Awakening
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“The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
– Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
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“I know that other people’s families are always more amusing than your own....”
– David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy
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“I had no cause to be happy. I felt sad with good reason, and it wouldn’t...”
– Natalie Standiford, How to Say Goodbye in Robot
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