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    As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they would. They'll bargain and compromise in order to survive; they'll chase after miracle cures and believe just about anything so long as it gives them hope. When hope fails, then watch out. Some people get brutal. They'll turn on each other; they'll become their own worst enemies.

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    As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

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    Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.

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    Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

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    My English teacher said that a writer is the worst judge of his own work.

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    Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.

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    She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

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    The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

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    The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.

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    There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

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    The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

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    They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

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    This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

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    Those brain-zapped kids weren’t the only - or maybe even the worst - enemy.

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    We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

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    What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.

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    Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. "Why can't you like me just a little?" She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance. Instead, he kissed her.

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    ..... desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it.

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    Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream?

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    Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

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    No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

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    People drown, quietly, before our eyes, all the time.

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    That pain moves when you move; it mutters between every breath; it spikes your ears; it rips. You think pain can’t be any more horrible than that. Until you discover that the well is bottomless. There’s always more.

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    What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

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    You know, Bob, school is school, one of those life experiences we kids all have to get through in order to become you. Then we wonder what all the fuss was about, especially while we're cleaning up your little messes: toxic waste, war, bank bailouts. Honestly, if we ran up debt the way you guys do? You'd ground us, take away our cells, and make us clean toilets with a toothbrush until we'd pay back every penny.

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    You really didn't appreciate how thick, how powerful water was until you had to fight it.

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    You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.