Lili Wilkinson Quotes

#1. Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it, trying to hold onto the deadness that had blanketed her emotions for the past few days.

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#2. Would you like to join me for a Meeting of Like Minds with Possible Romantic Consequences?

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#3. By the end of summer, this trolley will be bursting with spuds. Like nature's own supermarket.

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#4. Your career doesn't define you

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#5. This episode of my life is brought to you by the letters W, t, and F. I do not understand.

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#6. I think that sometimes the whole larger-than-life gay thing is just another kind of closet. It's easier to be different if you're very different, if you go all-out on purpose. Because that way you can still hide who you really are.

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#7. Is it shocking?" he asked sarcastically. "To discover that there are things you don't know?

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#8. For a long time, there was grief. It pulled me down into suffocating darkness, and kept me anchored there. I went through the motions. I turned up at school. I ate food and watched TV and took algebra tests. But I didn't feel anything. It was easier that way.

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#9. Fox's hand was a life raft, the only thing stopping me from sinking further into empty blackness.

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#10. School's okay. I mean, it's the usual oppressive regime of fascist dogma. But I'm surviving.

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#11. Ava: 'Girls liking boys is normal.'
Pat: 'No, it isn't. It's just common.

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#12. Pink was for girls.
Girly girls who wore flavored lip gloss and read magazines and talked on the phone lying on their perfect, lacy bedspreads with their feet in the air. Girls who spent six months looking for the perfect dress to wear to the school formal.
Girls who liked boys.

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#13. One magpie is bad luck,' said Molly. 'One for sorrow, two for mirth. Three for a wedding, four for a birth. Five for rich, six for poor. Seven for a witch, I can tell you no more.

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#14. Shutting your heart away and letting bitterness and emptiness rule. Pretending that decay is to be celebrated, and ignoring everything that really matters. Don't you feel yourself disintegrating when you're around them? Feel as if you're getting sucked into their swamp of narcissism and hatred?

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#15. Finally getting that sex change? I'm proud of you, brother. I mean, sister.

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#16. She was going to burst, or fall apart. Something. She couldn't keep feeling like this. The emptiness inside her was too big; it would swallow her whole.

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#17. Correct. That's the Sucker Effect. You do something, while making the audience think you did something else. So they're all busy feeling self-congratulatory that they figured it out, and it gives you all this awesome wriggle room to keep tricking them.

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#18. Do you hear me, mountain?' She yelled into the storm. I'm not giving in. I crossed an ocean to get here. I climbed this mountain. I will not let her die.

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#19. A single pink poppy lay on the footpath, its roots still crusted with earth. I picked it up and it drooped forlornly in my hands.

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#20. That's what I need to figure out. I need to figure out who I am. What I want.

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#21. Parents aren't supposed to cry. They're not supposed to have emotions, apart from anger, disappointment and pride. And fatigue. But they're never supposed to cry. It seems like such a personal, private thing.

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#22. No, seriously,' choked Sam, his eyes streaming. 'You're such a loser, that you've actually stopped losing and have progressed to having just lost. It's over. The game is over. You have lost the game of life. Do not pass Go. Do not collect two hundred dollars.

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#23. The tree of revenge yields no fruit.

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