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“The thing about perspective-changing events is that they usually don't announce themselves as such.”
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“There are moments when everything shifts, when the world becomes eerily like the kaleidoscope toy given to children, where with the turn of a cheap plastic knob everything changes, becomes different. Fiona looked at the man in front of her and the calm of downtown Portsmouth disappeared; the colors changed; the air smelled different. Everything flew upward, scattered, and landed again.”
― The Broken Girls
― The Broken Girls
“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”
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“In every set of twins, there is one angel, one devil.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
― I'll Give You the Sun
“There are large moments in life; but sometimes it is the small moments - the casual moments - that change everything. The second's absent wandering of attention before an accident. The choice to take one road, instead of another.”
― The Haunting of Maddy Clare
― The Haunting of Maddy Clare
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