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21 " Youcan see all of this online. But that's cheating. No computer programcan compare to the physical experience. It's like learning how toplay a virtual sports game. You're not really playing anything,against anyone. You're just a spectator. People are becomingspectators of their own lives instead of living them. But the best partis getting in the game. That's when it's all worth it. "
― Katie Kacvinsky , Awaken (Awaken, #1)
22 " It's like looking through a microscope your whole life," he (Justin) said. "You miss the whole picture. Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything. "
23 " Life is too short to say maybe "
24 " You need to be content with small steps. That's all life is. Small steps that you take every day so when you look back down the road it all adds up and you know you covered some distance. It took me a long time to accept that, but it's true. You need to have patience."", "
25 " It's not convenience that bothers me, it's people's obsession with saving time. Everything's a race. I just don't get who or what we're constantly racing against. "
26 " My bookshelf was my favorite part of my room. It had a calming presence. Maybe there was something to be said about the feeling and presence of real books. "
27 " I care about you. More than I feel safe caring. You make my heart do some really weird things "
28 " I was starting to think, maybe you need to feel your way more through life—just turn off the lights and follow your senses, even if you stumble once in a while. Maybe that's what falling in love is like. Just feeling your way through the darkness until you find something solid to hold on to. "
29 " No amount of power is worth having when it means hurting the people you love "
30 " You can't stop people from beinghuman. We're creative, we're social. People are like water. If youtry to contain them, they find a way to break free. "
31 " I needed him to know how I felt so I just kissed him as long as he would let me. I used to think talking was all about words. But you can say so much more with your eyes and your fingers and your touch. Words just make us one-dimensional. "
32 " Come on, life passes you by when you stand around talkingabout it. "
33 " Besides, there are no secrets. Sooner or later the truth leaks out. That's one thing I've learned in this life. "
34 " When you get too excited about the possibilities, you don't stop to consider the consequences. Just when you get too cocky, life has a way of putting you in your place. "
35 " You know, there are so many things you can't control in life, like whathappens to you or how people are going to react to what you do.It's wasted energy to worry about it. But you can control how youreact. That's the trick. "
36 " There's a reason why stars can only exist in the sky -- they're just rockets of light traveling through space, so it feels right to admire their form from a distance. People, solid and living and breathing together in the same world, are not meant to be surround by that much darkness. "
37 " It was safe, with all the lights off and no one around to point and stare. In the night it's easy to indulge. It was just the two of us—we didn't have to think about who we were or what this meant or where it was going. It was like an escape. It's easy to forget at this moment billions of people exist and far-off galaxies are being born and stars collide. Kissing is its own kind of collision, it produces its own planetarium of lights inside your head. For me, it was like seeing colors for the first time after living in a black-and-white world. A single person can be just as wide and vast and spellbinding as any sky full of stars. They can make you think the world stops and night can last forever.", "
38 " You don't have to choose sides," he said. "Makeup your own mind and believe that. "
39 " She explained sometimes the story is supposed to be missing because it's still waiting to be written. "
40 " All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control. "