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81 " Cabot Searcy began to care about learning not for the sake of making good grades, but because he still wanted to change the world. "
― John Corey Whaley , Where Things Come Back
82 " He tried to help the world, but the world wouldn't let him. "
83 " He looks back down to find that his brother is no longer there. He is no longer there to stop him from ridiculing Merle Hodge or making some smart-ass remark about woodpeckers. He doesn’t stop him when he thinks about asking the tour guide an unanswerable question or when he considers pretending to see a large bird off in the distance. He isn’t there anymore to supply Cullen Witter with endless chances to do better. "
84 " it was like looking at the sun and not going blind," Rameel said of his first sight of Isadora. "
85 " Some people sign on for the impossible. And they're the ones everybody remembers. "
― John Corey Whaley , Highly Illogical Behavior
86 " Now, no matter what they told themselves or each other, it would always be different. After all, no first love goes away overnight, especially one that's always right in front of you, but just out of your reach. "
87 " But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you’re thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward. "
― John Corey Whaley , Noggin
88 " your mind has a way of not letting you forget things you wish you could. Especially with people. Like, you'll always try your best to forget things that people say to you or about you, but you always remember. And you'll try to forget things that you've seen that no one should see, but you just can't do it. And when you try to forget someone's face, you can't get it out of your head. "
89 " Grandma "It'll keep you from going completely nuts someday and killing us all."Solomon "Is that what you think's going to happen, that I"m going to snap and kill you?"Grandma "Not me you won't. I keep mace in my purse. "
90 " We talked for a while longer about whether or not I was going to study writing or just be like everyone else who wanted to be a writer and become a teacher instead. "
91 " The gays love me. I think it's the accent. "
92 " I feel like writing is sometimes the only way I understand anything. "
― John Corey Whaley
93 " We all get people that help us make sense of the world, right? We just have to figure out how to keep them however we can. "
94 " The unspoken philosophy of all those in love with Ada was something like this: If I have to die to get that, then death it is. "
95 " When I asked him the meaning of life, Dr. Webb got very quiet and then told me that life has no one meaning, it only has whatever meaning each of us puts on our own life. "
96 " We have this way of putting certain ideas out of our minds...we do that. Humans, I mean. We have to bury things, hopes and dreams, so deep sometimes that it takes a little while to access those things once we need them again. "
97 " As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters who's with you. "
98 " But this wasn't a perfect world -- this was the world that Solomon Reed had run away from and the more Lisa thought about it, the less ridiculous that idea sounded to her. After all, wasn't she just trying to run away from the little part of the world that scared her, too? "
99 " You know things are weird when you start appreciating your farts. "
100 " Life," he says, "doesn't have to be so bad all the time. We don't have to be anxious about everything. We can just be. We can get up, anticipate that the day will probably have a few good moments and a few bad ones, and then just deal with it. Take it all in and deal as best we can. "