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It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

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Gabrielle Zevin
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: October 24
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In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.
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The baby, a girl, is born at 6:24 a.m. She weighs six pounds, ten ounces. The mother takes the baby in her arms and asks her, Who are you, my little one? And in response, this baby, who is Liz and not Liz at the same time, laughs.
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It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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He kissed me, though not in a sexy way. Gentle. Tender.
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I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.
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For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.
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Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know
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A life isn't measured in hours or minutes. Its the quality not the length. All things considered I've been luckier than most. Almost sixteen years on Earth, and I've already had eight good ones here. I expect to have eight more before all's good said and done. Nearly thirty-two years total, and that's not too shabby
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Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. You lost this, he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. I'm shedding.
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No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.
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You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.
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It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.
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It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.
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Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.
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Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.
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On Elsewhere we fool ourselves into thinking we know what will be just because we know the amount of time we have left. We know this, but we never really know what will be. We never know what will happen.
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You tell a kid he doesn't like to read, and he'll believe you
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What were you like, I asked her. we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?
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