He and I have a head-nod friendship, since that's pretty much the limit of our interaction.
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Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

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[S]he'd realized that he had loved her only because she belonged to him.

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Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

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That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

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I told you," he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you."

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I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

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Who knows? Maybe they’re right. Maybe we are driven crazy by our feelings. Maybe love is a disease, and we would be better off without it.

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Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.

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And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

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I know that the whole point—the only point—is to

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I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

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I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

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And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

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I was going to tell you that you look beautiful with your hair down. That's all I was going to say.

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