Quotes About Alender

#1. I'm a giant pimple on the face of humanity.

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#2. Everyone has moments of weakness. But that doesn't make you weak.

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#3. And my dreams felt as real as a memory

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#4. I thought about checking for a pulse, but decided that could wait. I kicked the knife so it slid under the heavy cabinet

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#5. I've worked hard, very hard, to get where I am. And you will have to work hard too. But when you do the work, you will see the results.

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#6. But I wouldn't tell them a thing. The less they knew, the better. I was positive of that. Ignorance is bliss, and the opposite of ignorance is the opposite of bliss.

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#7. Hmmph. Young Republicans have weird senses of humor.

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#8. Just say something real. Everyone just always tries so hard, and it all comes out the same. I just want someone to say something real.

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#9. That's the pathetic thing about high school. Everyone tries so hard to be something they aren't. It's gotten so I don't know who I am, so how can I even try to be who I am, much less who I'm not?
My problem is that I don't even fit in with the misfits.
I don't fit anywhere.

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#10. Stay sunny, we said to each other.
Because if you don't the whole world will know you're a monster.

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#11. How could something taht made a person feel so safe be so BAD?

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#12. I know where they are.'
'Where?'
'Why should I tell you?'
'Because, if I don't have a suitcase, I can't go to Paris tomorrow, and then you're stuck with me for all of Spring Break instead of having a nine-day sister-free bonanza.'
'Good point.

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#13. Don't you get it?" he asked. "Every time you try to protect me, you end up breaking my heart.

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#14. How could something that made a person feel so safe be so BAD?

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#15. I felt a tightening in my chest, a sharp spike of intense sadness-almost like nostalgia, except it was for a life I never had.

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#16. I'm not the beach-going type. the thought of being crowded into an endless sea of sun worshipers was the opposite of tempting - give me wizard school any day.

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#17. And I thought chivalry was dead!" ...
"Maybe it is. I opened a door into her head.

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#18. The only thing worse than parents who don't pay attention to you is parents who pat you on the shoulder on their way out the door

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#19. You can leave a door open for your 'friends,' but the truth is anybody can come in through that open door. And how do you know these friends are who they say they are, anyway?

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#20. NEED seemed like a really powerful word - - a powerful word containing a lot of powerlessness.

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#21. (Cinderella can't walk around her new castle covered in cinders, after all).

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#22. I can't help it, Alexis," he said "I want to make you think too much ... and then I want to hear the things you've been thinking too much.

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#23. I longed to be wrapped in his arms again, pour my troubles, make everything feel okay, even if it wasn't

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#24. Maybe it's human nature to be drawn to the things that have hurt us the most.

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#25. Apparently when it's two people, it's quirky and funny, but when it's a person doing the same stuff on her own, it's rebellious and antisocial.

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#26. Everyone lies, and there are no consequences. It's like a magical fairyland!

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#27. That's the whole problem, isn't it?" He turned his face toward the night sky and let out a horrible laugh, like a gasp of pain. "Why are you the only person who's allowed to be strong?

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#28. Ignorance may be bliss, but at the end of the day it's still ignorance.

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#29. AAAAAANNND LOOK OVER here," Hannah said. "Another dead person. What a shock.

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#30. Stay sunny, we said.
Because if you don't everyone will know you're a monster

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#31. some student who'd been caught putting bumper stickers that said 'Gas Guzzler' on every SUV in the parking lot.

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#32. Somehow suspension sounded way worse than detention. Detention happens to everybody. Suspension, though - that's for the sociopaths.
I wasn't a hundred percent sure I was ready to take that leap.

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#33. This is the kind of dream you don't wake up from, Henry.

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#34. Kissing was an extension of that, a celebration. A little party between us, amplifying our naive joy, our faith that the world was delighted to give us just what we wanted.

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#35. Loving this quote: Find the people who treat you the way you deserve to be treated. Tell everyone else to go to hell and don't look back.

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#36. But there was something on the floor that hadn't been there before - a tiny image, carefully cut out of a magazine: a little box of cat food. Weird.

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#37. I've been bad.
I've been good.
Weak and Strong.
Brave and afraid.
A hero and a killer.

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#38. Preps are like cheerleaders, except less jumpy

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