Chelsey Philpot Quotes

#1. Illness can be undignified. Suffering does not have a purpose, and relationships are complicated. In the most painful way a person can, Hazel comes to realize, that love does not, cannot, conquer death. What it can do, however, is transcend it.

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#2. I think inspiration is strongest when I find a balance between observation and participation. You can't write about what it means to dance by watching from the bleachers.

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#3. The hours were long, but the days were short, and as much as I willed it to never come, the end of summer arrived anyway.

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#4. For a time, I missed them like winter misses warmth. I could not breathe without her. I could not feel without him.

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#5. Even knowing everything, I would have chosen the same.
It's only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, to the moments that shaped us, - the moments when choices between yeses and noes determined the people we become.

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#6. So self-assured were they all by nature that it never occurred to me to doubt that their perfection was predetermined by forces I did not understand. They were all royalty. They were all gods. They were all broken.

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#7. We are solitary creatures that come together in packs so we can survive as a species. We'll do anything to preserve the social status quo, including omit, deny, and lie. Complete honesty would be detrimental to the survival of the race.

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#8. This is not something anyone can teach you. Heartbreak you must learn on your own.

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#9. As children we read to escape - to enter fantasy worlds where a bespectacled boy can discover he's a wizard or a brave girl can find a magical passage through a wardrobe. But we also read to find reflections of ourselves.

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#10. The air was swollen with music, shouting, and something I could not quite place- a feeling of happiness, but happiness with an edge, a sense of joy that was all the more meaningful because it was so fleeting.

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#11. Heartache, guilt, loss, grief, these things, too, are monsters.

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#12. I wish for a life so brave, so unpredictable, so full of unexpected joys and unforgettable love that no box could possibly contain all my memories.

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#13. Even knowing, as I do now, that grace, power, and, yes, love can hide the darkest elements of the human heart, I would do it all again.

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#14. But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.

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#15. Even with her red-rimmed eyes she was the reason artists painted portraits.

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#16. I'm sorry,' I whispered. I didn't know whether I was sympathizing with her broken heart or apologizing for a family who had had theirs broken, too.

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#17. Childhood is not all candy stores and recess; it's frustrations and confusions, too.

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#18. The burst of love I felt for her spread through me like blue paint turning red to purple.

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#19. They were perfect. They were flawed. They were scarred and beautiful. They were too familiar with death and clung to life by clinging to one another. The Great Buchanans were only human, after all.

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