The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

George Orwell

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And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

Ally Condie

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If I didn't love so damn hard I
wouldn't have someone to risk my life for.

Leslie Lee Sanders

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It feels so good to find out I mean everything to the person who means everything to me.

Leslie Lee Sanders

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I’m thinking ahead, imagining what our lives together would be like once we’re free from this hell and allowed to live and let go. You know? Really let go of our pain and finally enjoy each other … you and me.

Leslie Lee Sanders

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They were here from the beginning.

They have reshaped our lives, run us from our homes.

They were always here.

Nadège Richards

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You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Aldous Huxley

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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

Aldous Huxley

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But really, that is kind of silly,' Abigail tried to explain. 'I mean, a book is much less personal than a programmed screen that can respond to you according to your needs, and concentrate on what's hard for you, and go fast on what's easy. A book stays the same no matter *who's* reading it. And anyway, I don't see how anyone could read a whole long book, it must be so boring!'

'But...but it wasn't,' Peter said faintly. 'I...almost forgot I was reading it. The...the whole story was going on in my head.'

'I still don't understand,' said Oliver. 'I mean, watching a real-life hologram right before your eyes is better than anything you could *imagine.*

William Sleator

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Writing is emotional...it is baring your soul to the world and waiting for someone to acknowledge and love it, or shun and hate it, or worse be indifferent about it.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

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