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"They're , . . my friends."
You said you hated having friends. You said all they did was waste your free time, and cost you money at Christmas."

— Ali Shaw The Trees (2016)

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"Anything you do a lot of, you get good at."

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"Work out what you really want from life."

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The rain watered the world so heavily that he wondered if it might rinse it away. He did not think he would mind if it did.

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"What good is being in love with a person, if it only binds you to a thousand quiet disappointments, and new problems for every one that you fix?"

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"Look at you. Your folded arms. Your smug sneer. How do men like you get put in charge of the world, when you don't know the first thing about it?"

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