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1 " There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future. "
― Brad Meltzer , The Book of Lies
2 " I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted. "
3 " We all live best in our imaginations. "
4 " So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that's nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid. "
5 " Life is filled with trapdoors. "
6 " All writers steal from their own lives. "
7 " People are more twisted than people think. "
8 " There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. But what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write your future. "
9 " You need to understand something Cal-in this world, we're not humans having a divine experience. We're divine beings having a human experience. "
10 " Every life has forks in the road. And sometimes, the tines of that fork stab deep. "
11 " Life delivers far less disappointment when your expectations are low. "
12 " Tell your story.That's the secret of immortality. The one true way to live forever. "
13 " It's so damn easy to judge. But as Paolo knows from his niece, no matter how much you want someone back in your life, sometimes it's the letting-them-back-in part that hurts the most "
14 " There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves. "
15 " Some dreams linger for years.And some last forever. "
16 " In this life, y'ever notice that you face the same challenges again and again? We all do. They're challenges to your soul. We repeat them until we face them and master them. Yes we all have free will, but there're divine patterns out there, and the battle is to see them. "
17 " Sometimes a speech can make things better. This isn't one of those times. "
18 " It's rotten, okay? And once something's rotten, it can never be good again. "
19 " Do you not see that? That's what being family is - that's the best part - it's not tit for tat or who owes more, it's simply - when one hurts, so does the other; when one finds good, you share in that, too. That's family. "
20 " A little threat of evil is always the far better way to fill the seats. But sometimes the monsters aren't who we think they are. "