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The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.
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Megan McCafferty
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 1
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Megan Fitzmorris McCafferty
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Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia. (And it's also the reason people believe in God.)
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What are your thoughts?' 'My thoughts?' I replied, before I even realized what I was saying. 'My thoughts created my world.' Mac sat up in his seat. He scrunched his curls with his hands, perplexed. 'Who said that?' I told him the truth. 'Oh, just someone I used to know,' I said, stroking the naked skin on my middle finger.
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Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.
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The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it.
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Love, he said, has the longest arms.
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Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow
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Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.
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Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.
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You gotta take chances in this life or you're already dead.
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Faith is accepting what makes no sense, what we cannot prove, but know down deep in our souls is real.
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It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.
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We're all people, he said simply. It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.
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Marcus Flutie slept with just about every girl on the Eastern Seaboard except me. Though, he tried to get into my panties when I was a freshman but turned him down because I refuse to disempower myself just for a few clit twitches.
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I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn
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Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.
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I don't know if she's making the right choice, but it's not my choice to make. I promise to support her, whatever she decides. Because that's what sisters do.
Megan McCafferty
Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.
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You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same, Hope said, What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.
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When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.
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Ever notice how people wait until they're not going to see you anymore to say something nice to you?
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