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1 " Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it will. But we are not our beauty or our brokenness, because souls are not made of beauty or brokenness. Souls are made of something permanent. Souls are made of truth. "
― Lauren Miller , All Things New
2 " We see what we want to see, what we expect to see, instead of what's really there. I don't think we do it on purpose, most of the time. We just get kind of stuck. We start thinking that the way things are is the way they'll always be. But that's not true. It can't be true. Because the world is never still. "
3 " So you believe in fate,” I say.Dr. Mann pauses thoughtfully before answering. “I believe each of us was uniquely created for a specific purpose designed by the Creator, and that, because of that, there are certain things in our lives that we are destined by Him to do. The rest, I think, is soft clay: left entirely to the defining influences of choice, chance, and circumstance. And luck! Don’t forget luck. "
― Lauren Miller , Parallel
4 " That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present. "
5 " The delicious, semiconscious, edge-of-wonderland kind of sleep, where I'm awake enough to control my dreams but asleep enough to forget that I'm doing it. "
6 " Someday those bruises inside you will heal. You can't know when someday will come, or what life will look like when it finally does. ... But in a way it doesn't even matter because someday isn't what we have. What we have is right now, this moment, when things aren't okay yet, but in a way they are already, because in the end they will be, and as long as that's true, it's enough. "
7 " This probably isn’t something you’re supposed to say at a moment like this, but I think the moon is seriously overrated.” A moment like what? I bite my cheeks, taming the grin that threatens to take over my face.“And the stars?” I ask, once the smile is under control.“Wildly underrated,” he declares with a grin. He looks up again. “The sky is a storybook,” he says then. “Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale. "
8 " It registers that I am sitting there topless, but this body I am in doesn't feel like mine anymore so the half-nakedness seems irrelevant, like a rumor, something I'm supposed to care about but don't. "
9 " I nod seriously, "Supes.""You're mocking me.""A little bit.""People say supes!""What people?""I can't believe you're shaming me right now. I'm very sensitive about my use of cool vernacular.""Then we're good. Because you haven't used any." I flash a grin. "
10 " Even without Lux, I never would've ordered this," I pointed out. "I hate two of the four ingredients.""Ah, but there are seven ingredients. And so what if you hate two of them? The fact that I hate Russian dressing doesn't diminish my enjoument of a good Reuben sandwich. Ours is amazing, by the way. "
― Lauren Miller , Free to Fall
11 " Ele estava parado, sorrindo para o visor da câmera, e o virou em minha direção para eu ver a imagem. Era uma mulher, claramente uma moradora de rua, com os olhos fundos fitando a câmera. "Não quero seu dinheiro", dizia o papelão segurado por ela. "Apenas olhe para mim, para eu saber que existo". "
12 " Knowing that the voice wouldn’t scream to be heard, they made sure that the world stayed loud with music and movies and 24/7 news and incessant online chatter. If they couldn’t silence the whisper, they’d bombard people with other voices. Infinite choices. "
13 " Your path will change. Your destiny doesn't. "
14 " How can a person smell so manly and so sweet? "
15 " For the first time in a long time, connection had replaced connectedness. I’d never seen anything like it before, not on this scale. The effervescent pulse of human interaction. People turning to faces instead of screens. It was a splendor of its own. "
16 " Seated in the front row was a prominent casting director who’d flown in to see her nephew play Septimus Hodge. This kind of thing happens all the time in magnet school land, "
17 " here i go down circle road strong and hopeful-hearted through the dust and wind up just exactly where i started "
18 " Who knew fate was so fragile? "
19 " The point is, there will always be competing voices," I heard North say. "In your head and in the world. You can't spend your life caught between them."I looked up at him. "You're telling me to choose.""I know better than to tell you to do anything," North said, reaching around me to shut down his computer. "But if you don't decide, the world will choose for you. "
20 " He held the camera out for me to see. It was a women, her sunken eyes looking straight at the camera. 'I don't want your money', her cardboard sign read. 'Just look at me so I know I exist'. The words and her expression were arresting on their own, but they weren't what made the photograph so compelling. It was the people in the foreground, the passersby, eyes glued to their phones as they hurried to wherever they were going at lunch, completely oblivious of the women with the sign. "
