Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

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It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction.

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No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

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Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

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No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

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Books may well be the only true magic.

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Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

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Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

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Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

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Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

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