Stephanie Kallos Quotes

#1. It's never too late to try a new approach to learning anything, and just because one has no expectation doesn't mean one has no hope.

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#2. Her heart was finished. It bore, perhaps, records of life, but it wasn't alive. Too late for decoration. Too late for effects. Further handling could only result in cracks and fractures. People could cut themselves on the edgesof her heart, she was sure of it.

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#3. (T)here were always vacancies in the construct of life: blank spaces occupied by the unseen guest, the absent friend.

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#4. I'll serve something black. Bean soup, licorice, coffee. It'll be very grim, I promise. We'll cover the mirrors. We'll listen to Piaf. We'll read passages from Dostoyevsky.

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#5. Sometimes a person can say I'm sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.

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#6. We're more valuable broken.

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#7. She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit.

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#8. Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.

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#9. Extras, in case you want to send some." "Irma," M.J. said. "Who am I going to write a postcard to? You're the

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#10. He was shorter than an average eight-year-old boy but exceptionally tall for a tulip.

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#11. Her eyes are the first indication of her infirmity, or rather that she resides in more than one world. (Dementia)

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#12. But in dying so suddenly her mother had become a riddle at the gate instead of the road you walked to get there.

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#13. Love? It's when you don't give a thought to all the ifs and want-to's in the world. It's when if all the fires of hell were between you, you'd walk in them gladly to be with him, and sing with joy at your own burnin' if only his kiss was on your mouth.

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#14. Be happy, we're worth more broken.

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