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The most complicated skill is to be simple. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME. ↗

— Eleanor H. Porter

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I don't know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i'm just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real) ↗

— Tara Michener

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I think that I had better go, Holmes." "Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I'm not sure if you even want me around or if you just feel sorry for me. I'm not sure of anything. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#feelings #sadness #sarah-ockler #young-adult-fiction #young-adult-fiction

Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can't wait to talk to me. -Madisyn ↗

— Tara Michener

#cyberbullying #relational-aggression #tara-michener #young-adult-fiction #love

It's a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn't even know you were aiming for. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

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