“I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary,' she said, sticking her chin in the air.”
“It occurred to him that strength was quite different from toughness and that being vulnerable wasn't quite the same as being weak.”
“Miss Thorne said no more. Poor boy, she thought, away from his loving home and now dumped with an irritable old man. Tom”
“I expect you think I’m a bit forward,’ remarked Zach. ‘Wot?”
“I... was impulsive and skinny, and wished that I could be more like a character in a novel, so I would finally stop blurting out the wrong things at the wrong time.”
“The first step towards knowledge is to accept your own ignorance.”
“In other words, such is he desire which everyone has to exculpate himself by blackening his neighbour. You and I, Belford, have been very kind to the world in furnishing it with many opportunities to gratify its devil.”
“Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change”
“...personal torture instructor...I mean physical therapist.”
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