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“I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.”

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Mary Pipher is an American psychologist known for her in-depth research on adolescent mental health. Her books, such as 'Reviving Ophelia' and 'Reading Mother Goose', delve into the psychological world and growth experiences of adolescents. more

“Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.”

World Stills Stories Spirit Natural Praying Understood Empty Invisible Forests Irrational Natural World Predecessors Making Up

Book:Pretties

Source: Pretties

“She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.”

Made Whole Stories Doubt Team Sky Band Stranger Valuable Soccer No Doubt Village Commodity Touring Disappoint Satellites Soccer Team

Book:Pretties

Source: Pretties

“I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.”

Wanted Parent Let Me Juvenile Delinquents

Author:John Waters

“It was not a big smile, not particularly bold or polite or ironic or glib, not asking for anything or offering anything, not stringy or careless, not, in short, like any smile I had ever experienced before. But such a smile! You could burn a hole in the world with that smile.”

World Bigs Asking Holes Ironic Offering Polite Careless

Author:Meg Rosoff

“For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.”

Ifs Needs Heart I Can Soul Body Sound Crazy Bears My Heart Wounds My Soul Scar Fathom

Book:Aftermath

Source: Aftermath

“Right now, I wish I’d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don’t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leaving—that you love me, but you don’t need me. You don’t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.”

Way Want Needs Mean Said Use Wish Sound Sides Needed Right Now Leaving Selfish Admire I Want You

Book:Aftermath

Source: Aftermath

“The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

World Winning Revolution Chains Communism Revolutionary Communist Proletariat Class Struggle Nothing To Lose Uniting Communist Manifesto

Author:Karl Marx

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