1. "People make their own choices, and sometimes those choices suck."
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Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed
2. "It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself."
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Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed
3. "Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if all magic moments are psychotic?"
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Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed
4. "I found myself in a place that was thorny, but because I was so used to being there, it bore out certain twisted sensations of comfort. It's a place called «alone»."
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Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed
5. "Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it."
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Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed
6. "My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill-begotten pasts as their promising futures. It's as if people are drawn to looking back. They can't move on until it all makes sense. Humbly submitted: It never does."
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Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed
7. "My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad—I've never changed my mind about that."
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Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed
8. "There you go: Someone who puts «positive thinking» and «shit» in the same concept can inspire some serious eye-rolling if you're the type who works at keeping your thought-life healthy."
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Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed
9. "There is something very cool about writing your worst memories through someone else's eyes. You start to see what happened to you... almost as if it happened to somebody else. Especially if that made-up person is nice, it's a great exercise because there are many mean people in this world."
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Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed
10. "Thin veneers can cover a mountain of problems around here when nobody's looking at the details."
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Carol Plum-Ucci, Following Christopher Creed