I wanted to tell her not to entertain despair like this. Despaire wasn't a guest, you didn't play its favorite music, find it a comfortable chair. Despair was the enemy."
-white oleander

Janet Fitch

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Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul.
He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

Janet Fitch

Tags: home paul never astrid displaced



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I didn't tell her about the free-for-alls on the school yard, muggings on the bus. A girl burned a cigarette hole in the back of another girl's shirt at nutrition right in front of me looking at me as if daring me to stop her. I saw a boy being threatened with a knife on the hallway outside my spanish class. Girls talked about their abortions in gym class. Claire didn't need to know about that. I wanted the world to be beautiful for her. I wanted things to work out. I always had a great day no matter what.

Janet Fitch

Tags: astrid



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Sometimes I think He looks down and says, "Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little.

Michael Grant

Tags: gone astrid



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They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words.

Michael Grant

Tags: words love sleep kiss night sam astrid wordless



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Brittney, it was wrong to murder even before Moses brought down the commandments. Right and wrong doesn't come from God. It's inside us. And we know it. And even if God appears right in front of us, and tells us to our faces to murder, it's still wrong.

Michael Grant

Tags: god right-and-wrong gone-series astrid michael-grant



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Come live with us, Diana. Don't argue. Just say yes."
Diana looked at the ground to hide her emotions. Then she said, "Would I have to be hearing you two going at it night and day?

Michael Grant

Tags: sex light funny gone gone-series sam astrid diana michael-grant come-live-with-us



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The warrior who had gone out from the lake to save his people by slaying the evil one was now just a boy sitting in the dirt with his fingers in a mane of blond hair.
He stared at nothing. Expected nothing. Planned nothing.
Just sat.

Michael Grant

Tags: fear gone sam astrid fayz



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This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives.

Janet Fitch

Tags: quote white astrid janet fitch oleander



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