Stephanie Kuehn Quotes

#1. I am both ever evolving and ever decaying.

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#2. I'm trying to reach the stars.

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#3. From what I can tell, morality is a word. Nothing more. There're the things people do when others are watching and the things we do when they aren't.

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#4. You wanted to live," he says.
"You say that like it's a good thing. A virtue."
"What is it really?"
I think about this. "Selfish."
"Wanting to live is selfish?"
"Yes.

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#5. ...More than looking, what we're really doing is gazing, and we do it for so long I start to get the feeling that nothing else matters.
It's a good feeling.
Better than good.
It's one I could get lost in.

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#6. Race wasn't even something he thought about these days, because that's what you were supposed to do. Pretend it didn't matter. Still,

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#7. What she had, and what Miles would because of her, why that was the point of it all. Wasn't that a brilliant thing? She'd had her shine. And now, somewhere, somehow, for a heart she'd never know, to light a sky she'd never see, someone else was preparing for theirs.

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#8. That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.

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#9. Was it possible to fall so far from greatness? Was this, then, his destiny?

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#10. Choosing to live can mean so much more than not dying.

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#11. Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force.
Its own flavor.
Its own charm and strange.

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#12. You're like my sun in winter.

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#13. Even stranger, though, was how, at this very moment, this car with its echoes of death and decisions and life courses forever altered was the one place where Emerson had never felt so vividly alive.

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#14. She loves us all."
"Then why doesn't she act like it?"
"Because love doesn't always look nice.

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#15. Real crazy is about taking something good and spoiling it.

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#16. She is fucking beautiful, and she is utter madness.

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#17. There are some dreams you can't wake up from.
Ever.
These are called nightmares.

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#18. No guardrails stood between the road and oblivion.

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#19. This school devours privacy, and rumors are like drops of blood in an ocean full of predators.

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#20. You have a history of starving yourself," he says gently.
I lift my head. I meet his gaze. "I have a history that I don't like to talk about.

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#21. She must have seen more of my charm than my strangeness tonight.

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#22. An ambulance came. Then a cop car.
When pressed harder about it, I cried. A lot.
Howled, really.

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#23. Somewhere. somehow, in the near future, Miles knew, some of them would be winners, some losers, and others, like himself, would be asked to fall on their swords.

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#24. There are some dreams you do wake up from, only to find you can't remember them at all. But that doesn't mean these dreams don't matter ...
These are dream that hold our most private of truths.
These are the dreams that destinies are made of.

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#25. They had it all wrong, of course. Bravery wasn't required to conquer fear. Indifference was.

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