The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what … - Natalie Babbitt

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You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me.

Natalie Babbitt

The sea can swallow ships, and it can spit out whales like watermelon seeds. It will take what it wants, and it will keep what it has taken, and you may not take away from it what it does not wish to give.

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Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.

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Readers are lucky - they will never be bored or lonely.

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Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.

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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

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