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- "Because everyone lies," Zephyr replied. All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what door hadn't yet been slammed in your face.
- It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the speed your blood ran through you, how it made you dream in kaleidoscope color.
- Accept loss forever
- A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Essays, "Character," 1844
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