Ellen Wittlinger Quotes

#1. Well, it sounds strange, but when i think of God, i think of a soft whirring noise - like a spinning ball of energy - something i can tap into when i need it.

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#2. My name is Mike. Instantly forgettable. Unlike Heather. What a breathless little name that is.

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#3. It seems obvious to me that the more queer books there are in the wolrd, the more queer kids we reach with the message that they are not alone, the fewer LGBT kids become one of these grim statistics.

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#4. Nobody is like anybody else. that's why nobody gets along with anybody else.

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#5. I was in love with the sound of the slamming door, it sounded the way i felt, like damn you to hell! and i hate what you're doing to me! and Life sucks.

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#6. When people say they love you, you just have to decide to believe them, because you'll never know for sure.

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#7. I believe in anything it would be nature - trees, clouds, rain - the life cycles that begin and end, season after season. that makes sense to me - nature as God.

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#8. What's normal, she said. adults are all just weird in different ways.

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#9. You give everyone the benefit of the doubt. they don't always deserve it.

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#10. Bunny was a good soul and a strong believer but she would have been that way whether she went to church or not, wouldn't she. church doesn't make you a better person.

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#11. I trust the red sun setting, the leafless November trees. On Monday morning I look foward fearlessly to Friday's eve. But humans are not as reliable as nature, as trees. I wonder if you'll come back; I trust only that you leave.

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#12. I like to believe the happy ending lasts forever.

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#13. I want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

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#14. Why is it that people don't know what to say when something bad has happened to someone they know? Maybe because they think there are some magic words that will make everything all right again, only they don't know what the words are.

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#15. It's a lie, you know, to pretend that nothing is important to you. It's hiding. Believe me, I know because I hid for a long time. But now I won't do it anymore. The truth is bioluminescent. I don't lie, and I don't waste time on people who do.

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#16. And she said we all had to find God inside ourselves, in the things we loved most.

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#17. The whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence.

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#18. But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

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#19. Well, you just have to make sure that you're his escape

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#20. Sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

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#21. When there's an elephant in the room, you can't pretend it isn't there and just discuss the ants.

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