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101 " And once open, Ed's box, just like Pandora's, is a bit of a bugger to close again. Worse, what lies at the bottom is not hope. But guilt. "
― C.J. Tudor , The Chalk Man
102 " Perhaps if he hadn't started to get ill, he might have eventually made it. As it was, when the illness started to eat away at his mind, the first thing it swallowed was the thing he loved the most. His words. "
103 " And now he is gone. No longer a part of my memories but simple a memory. "
104 " Those things are the ones that shape us. Not the things we can change, but the ones we can’t. "
105 " Thinking back, I guess one of the reasons our gang all hung out together was that none of our families was exactly 'normal'. "
106 " He was one of those kids who just knew how to be. "
107 " There are some girls mums will never like, and of course they are exactly the sort of girls you will always fall head over heals in love with. "
108 " I don't think how you act in this life makes any difference after you die. Good or bad. But it does make a difference while you're alive. To other people. Thats why you should always treat them well. "
109 " A tragic accident. But that's all it was. An accidental. Sometimes things happen and there's no reason. That's just how life is. Death, too. "
110 " ¿Qué somos sino la suma de nuestras experiencias de las cosas que reunimos y acumulamos en vida? "
111 " There are some things you can't share even with your friends. Kids have secrets, too. More so than adults, sometimes. "
112 " The thing you have to understand is that being a good person isn't about singing hymns, or praying to some mythical God. It isn't about wearing a cross or going to church every Sunday. Being a good person is about how you treat others. A good person doesn't need religion, because they are content within themselves that they are doing the right thing. "
113 " I suppose, in a way, I liked the feeling of control. Kids don'ts have a lot of control over their lives, but only I knew what it was in my boxes, and only I could add stuff or take it away. "
114 " Work used to be her life. But then dad got ill and looking after him became her life instead. "
115 " I don't like to think I am a defeatest. But I am a realist. "
116 " Its all fake, anyway. That's what the book's really saying. We're all just pretending to be civilised, when, deep down, we're not. "
117 " Cuando eres un niño tus amigos son tu mundo. "
118 " A small moment, almost lost in the jumbled haze of other memories. "
119 " But memory is weird and time works did when your a child. "
120 " Death happened to other people, not kids like us, not people we knew. Death was abstract. "