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“You've got to try and not let it keep you down. Sure, let it hurt but don't let it harm you.”
“I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life.”
“No one knows if something works until it actually works. That's why you must always try.”
“If that's the example you want set, you be the example.”
“Don't dare try to be heroes.”
“Through her eyes the day was new and anything was possible.”
“I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known.”
“Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try.”
“One shot is all anyone needs if they back themselves and do it right.”
“Isn't the smell of coffee the best alarm clock?”
“And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.”
“Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.”
“We must stop this unimaginable atrocity before it becomes a reality.”
“My pragmatic nature, my impatience, will most likely have me drunk on aged spirit by noon.”
“There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.”
“It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt.”
“If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.”
“You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.”
“The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth.”
“This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him.”
“You can't lose sleep over should-of's and could-of's.”
“A cup of tea at the ready and a jug of water will suffice just fine.”
“The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.”