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Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but you've got to take the candle and walk alone.

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Lauren Kate
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: March 21
Author
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Dayton
Ohio
Walk
Walks
Wisdom
Alone
Experience
Take
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Candle
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How easy it was to fall in love with every moment of her existence!
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Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems
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Some truce, Daniel said, Eighteen days of others trying to kill her.
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I guess I don’t know what I want.” “I do. I want you.” “I know, but—” “Nothing will ever change that. No matter what you hear. No matter what happens.
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Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.
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Gorgeous, glowing rays of light...This was what true beauty and goodness looked like-- a spectral, luminescent gathering of beings so pure it hurt to look directly at them, like the most glorious eclipse, or maybe Heaven itself.
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Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.
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what if it was enough to just stand here in the arms of someone who ared about her, to let his simple affection steady her for a little while? it felt so good just to be held.
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I cannot be other than what I am, and I am the choices of all my days.
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She took comfort in the soft occasional sound of turning pages.
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Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.
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This wasn't strong-willed, fly-by-the-seat-of-her-miniskirt Kate that I'd befriended last year. You think you know a girl- and then she goes and loses her virginity at a Mardi Gras party and goes soft.
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this lifeless paper, cruel imposter, was the only to take her with him
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Shut up, Daniel said, but he said it softly and so tenderly that Luce suprised both of them by obeying. I don't think you're stupid. He closed his eyes I think you're the smartest person I know. And the kindest. And... he swallowed, opening his eyes to look directly at her - the most beautiful.
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I can't wait to make you the love of my mortal life.
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I know nothing. I know no one. I’m lonely. Every time I see you, you’ve put up some new wall, and you never let me in.
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Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.
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