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• How in the world was I alone? Because I wanted to be. That's all I can say. It's all that makes sense to me.

  Jay Asher

  World, Wanted, I Can

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.212, Penguin

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• We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?

  Stephen Hawking

  Heart, World, Want

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• Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard.

  John Green

  Towns, Heard

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.196, A&C Black

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• ...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

  Mira Grant

  Reality, Needs

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• That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't know what you think until it dribbles from your brain down your arm and into your hand and out through your fingers and shows up on the computer screen, and you read it and realize: That's really true; I believe that.

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Hard Love”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Girl, Mind, Bards

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Book of Three: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.74, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Sociological Review revealed that atheists are the least trusted group in America—less trusted, even, than homosexuals. It makes sense at least we trust the homosexuals with our hair.

  Stephen Colbert

  Atheist, Hair, America

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• The people who stand before kings may look like they did it all by themselves. But in fact they are invariably the beneficiaries of hidden advantages and extraordinary opportunities and cultural legacies that allow them to learn and work hard and make sense of the world in ways others cannot. It makes a difference where and when we grew up.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Kings, Hard Work, Opportunity

  "Outliers: The Story of Success". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.

  Jodi Picoult

  Feelings, One Day, Answers

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• It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.

  Jack Gantos

  Animal, Thinking, Elephants

  Jack Gantos (2011). “Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key”, p.34, Macmillan

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• No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.

  Paul Goodman

  Compassion, Anxiety, Feelings

  Paul Goodman (1977). “Nature Heals”

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• When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sports, Football, Attitude

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Persistence

  "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, November 18, 2008.

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• People try to make sense of things, and if they don’t know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

  Ann Aguirre

  People, Trying, Answers

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Peter used to say that an artist’s job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Artist, Order

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• We Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.” -Mrs. Karafilis

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Daughter, Suicide, Light

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• The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

  Daniel Pennac

  Lying, Reading, World

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• Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.

  Sylvia Day

  World, Way, Because Of You

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.500, Penguin

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• I don’t need anything else. I get out of bed every morning and face the world because you’re in it.” He turned the corner and pulled up in front of the Crossfire behind the Bentley. He killed the engine, released his seat belt, and took a deep breath. “Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn’t before. I have a place now, with you.

  Sylvia Day

  Morning, Bed, Needs

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• Oh. Yeah. That does make sense.” Shaylin hesitated. “But I don’t know which dorm room is hers.” “Third floor, number thirty-six. When they shared a brain, they used to say it stood for their chest size. I said it was their combined IQ.” “Of course you did,” Shaylin said. “See, you do understand me!” Aphrodite said with fake enthusiasm.

  P. C. Cast

  Numbers, Fake, Brain

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• Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.

  Danielle Steel

  Falling In Love, People, Feelings

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• Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Differences

  Mary Doria Russell (1998). “Children of God: A Novel”, Villard Books

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• ...you're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense.

  Richard Siken

  Weed, Waiting, Together

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• I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

  Ray Bradbury

  Long, Want, Enough

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.39, Hamilton Books

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• What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady, to be strange and familiar all at once, with enough change to quicken my mind, enough steadiness to give sanctuary to my heart. The books on my shelf never asked to come together and they would not trust or want to listen to one another. But each is a piece of a stained-glass whole, without which I wouldn’t make sense to myself or to the world outside.

  Pico Iyer

  Book, Heart, Glasses

  "Great Reads In Store: Indie Booksellers Pick 2012's Best". www.npr.org. December 13, 2012.

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