1. "When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end."

2. "Good luck tended to avoid me."

3. "Attention is never a good thing, as any other accident-prone klutz would agree. No one wants a spotlight when they’re likely to fall on their face."

4. "It was sort of the pattern to my life – I’d never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them."

5. "I guess my brain will never work right. At least I’m pretty."

6. "I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping."

7. "Happiness was the main component in my life now, the dominant pattern in the tapestry."

8. "Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me – so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it."

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