There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations - Jodi Picoult

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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

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My daughter won't go to school this year until eleven o'clock, because she can't handle being there when third period starts," the woman said. "Everything scares her. This has ruined her whole life; why should Peter Houghton's punishment be any less?

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Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

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