Leah Stewart Quotes

#1. Between what you thought you wanted and what you wanted? Why did people have to be such a danger to themselves? She had had reasons for her choices. Good

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#2. The first time you fall in love, it's like you've created the first love in the universe, and the first time someone you love dies, you grieve the universe's first death. What does it help to be told that what you feel is nothing new?

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#3. And I'll know that this is what you live for - to hear someone say. "Let's go home," to hear someone you love call your name.

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#4. I'd always been suspicious of unrelenting sunniness, what it must be working so hard to conceal.

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#5. Every so often they exchanged these quick, knowing glances, each making sure the other one was still there, still with her. I wondered how long their friendship would last, and I felt sorry for them, because they didn't know it wouldn't.

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#6. To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

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#7. Why was it so hard to tell the difference between what you thought you wanted and what you wanted? Why did people have to be such a danger to themselves?

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#8. You spend way too much time confusing silence with strength.

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#9. You're not a realist," she says. "You're a dreamer who doesn't believe in the dream.

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#10. His face became a mirror, and in it I saw a monster version of myself, unleashing my anger like black magic. In front of my children, in front of my neighbors' house. If I'd really been a witch Nathan would have been a column of dust. Not even a lizard, not even a toad. Just nothing. Nothingness,

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#11. Why do people let me speak to them so rudely? If they'd let me get away with less, I might think what I said mattered more.

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#12. And Josh wanted to tell her what he knew: that love might look like a shore but turn out to be a desert island, where you roamed alone, talking to yourself, trying to crack open coconuts with your shoe. So thirsty you drank the salt water. So hungry you ate the sand.

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#13. I thought that because my father was military, I was, too ... I'd treated my life there ... like a tour of duty, and ... the only reason I was leaving was that my year was up.

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#14. That's just how it is, you know," she said. "Women always choose men over other women.

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#15. The world has forgotten that there is more pleasure in wondering than knowing.

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#16. He thought of asking her, but for no reason he could name, the silence between them seemed too hard to break.

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#17. A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

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#18. All at once it strikes me ... that all you know of a life is the places where it touches your own ... It's strange and diminishing, like looking through a telescope at the stars.

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#19. You like being in love with someone who's not going to love you back." She opened her eyes. He looked at her. "Why would I like that?" she asked. He shrugged. "I don't know.

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#20. I want to be alone. I don't want to be alone. My days pop like bubbles. There is no one to remember the things that have happened to me.

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#21. Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

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#22. Attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.

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#23. Here was the secret of this house, the thing it took bravery to face
that to go on loving someone means to over and over again allow the necessary pain.

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#24. A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you're from, especially if you're from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

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