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1. "I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy." ~ Darin Strauss
2. "The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses." ~ Darin Strauss
3. "We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough." ~ Darin Strauss
4. "this empty act could no more be mistaken for a mother's touch than the wind that fills out some dress on a clothesline might be confused with an actual body." ~ Darin Strauss
5. "I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby." ~ Darin Strauss
6. "Things don't go away. They become you." ~ Darin Strauss
7. "Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling." ~ Darin Strauss
8. "I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly equipped; after a surplus of emotional information the system overloads, the circuit breaks, the board runs dark. That's what shock is." ~ Darin Strauss
9. "Self-hate is rarely unconditional." ~ Darin Strauss
10. "I have come to love you in spite of---" Do I want to be loved in spite of?...Does anyone?" ~ Darin Strauss
11. "I suppose memory has at least two faces, and capricious ones at that." ~ Darin Strauss
12. "His nervous eyes watched me above his words, apologizing for the ways the excuses weren't right even as he couldn't stop presenting them." ~ Darin Strauss
13. "Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate." ~ Darin Strauss
14. "Looking back now, there's something that bothers me abut the newspaper article about her death: it has Celine as Knockout, as Queen Bee, as Prom Superstar. The kid the newspaper grieved for wasn't Celine. She was none of those things. Their version of her was less distinctive than the real Celine was, less an individual, devoid of any real-life individual's quirks and smudges. The paper seemed to believe Celine's death could only be fully newsworthy, only fully sad, if she were outlandishly beautiful, outlandishly popular, outlandishly everything." ~ Darin Strauss
15. "In fiction classes... you find that epiphany has a pretty high rate of occurrence... But when you tell your own story honestly, that epiphany thing is rare... The only changes are emergencies or blessings: when you wake up, notice the surroundings, then fall back, and wander more. And if you're lucky you end up walking again through a life where you're never called on to do much noticing." ~ Darin Strauss
16. "Love was now a mild streamlet that advanced in drips around my feet; despite how hard I worked at tenderness, I could not drown in a thing that shallow." ~ Darin Strauss

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She had the the most extraordinary capacity for falling asleep at a moments notice. Any kind of pause in the routine was an excuse for a nap. I swear she was more cat than human."
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