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“Sometimes he thought his real goal wasn't to teach them to write better essays but to get them to think more about what it meant to be human.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“The point wasn’t always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“Life, she thought, was like that sometimes; for years, things were a certain way, and then in an instant, almost without conscious thought, they weren’t that way any longer, as if all the hidden pressure on their having been the way they’d been had found release through a necessary valve.”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves

“This was life; you went down with the ship. Who was to say that wasn't a love story?”
― Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves