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“It was a strange, wonderful feeling. To discover eyes upon you when you expected no one to notice you at all.”
― One Crazy Summer
― One Crazy Summer
“Thinking about her was the same as the hole you keep on feeling with your tongue after you lose a tooth. Time after time, my mind kept going to that empty spot, the spot where I felt like she should be.”
― Because of Winn-Dixie
― Because of Winn-Dixie
“Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.”
― Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
― Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
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“We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.”
― One Crazy Summer
― One Crazy Summer
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