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• Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple.

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  Apples, Fruit, Bad Apple

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• I'd never seen that look on another face before, had never identified it in another person. I'd only met with it in fiction. But everyone falls in love with Holden Caulfield when they're sixteen. They read Catcher in the Rye and don't feel so alone.

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  Falling In Love, Looks, Fiction

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.9, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.

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  Suicide, Reason, Worst

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.199, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should get second chances on the big stuff. We should come equipped with erasers attached to the tops of our heads. Like pencils. We should be able to flip over and scribble away mistakes, at least once or twice during the duration of our existence, especially in matters of life and death.

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  Mistake, Opportunity, Second Chance

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.101, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• It’s easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the moisture, you’re left with nothing but a thirsty little flower trying desperately to make it out of the dirt.

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  Women, Flower, Water

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2017). “God-Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.65, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I hate that word, CAN’T. I wish it had never been dreamed up, spoken, or defined. I wish the concept of CAN’T could be eradicated not only from language, but more importantly from the psyche of a girl who I know is filled with so much CAN it seeps out of her pores and scents the air.

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  Girl, Hate, Air

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.132, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I'm almost thirty and my day job is folding shirts at the Gap. Have you seen my room? I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.

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  Jobs, Gaps, Rooms

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.25, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But the guitars made sounds guitars didn’t always make. Symphonic sounds. Sacred sounds. The music dug in so deep you didn’t hear it so much as feel it, reminding me of a dream I used to have when I was a kid, where I would be standing on a street corner, I would jump into the air, flap my arms, and soar up into the sky. That’s the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight.

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  Dream, Writing, Kids

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.86, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• We had pathetically simple dreams: to do meaningful work that we could be proud of, to be together, and to be happy.

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  Life, Meaningful, Dream

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.273, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• For the record, if I were Superman, a pale, scrawny guy holding a guitar would be Kryptonite.

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  Guitar, Kryptonite, Guy

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.92, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Break my heart? Is that what you just said? I have news for you; you didn't break my heart. My heart's fine. My heart's in the best shape of its life. You know what you did to me? You took an AK-47 and blew my soul open.

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  Heart, Ak 47, Soul

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.334, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I need to know that wherever I end up, in the stars or in the gutter, you’re along for the ride.

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  Stars, Needs, Gutters

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.124, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn’t even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.

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  Validation, Waiting, Feelings

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.74, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you’d made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I’d vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn’t have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living.

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  Home, Thinking, Years

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• Maybe I’m weak for music men. Maybe I’m weak, period. But I couldn’t deny I was charmed by his arrogant, fool-ish guise.

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  Men, Arrogant, Fool

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.62, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like this: I’m lonely. But when I left that girl in the window I was sure I’d never felt more godforsaken in my life. There’s a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I’m guessing that once you’ve discovered this distinction you can’t go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.

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  Girl, Lonely, Emotional

  "How to Kill a Rock Star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.

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• I'd be a sucker for a guy who wrote me a song,” I said. “Like Beth or Rosanna or Sara. Or Sharona. Is that too much to ask? To be somebody's Sharona?

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  Song, Guy, Too Much

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.61, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Forget the noose. Forget the Iron Maiden. Forget the electric chair or the guillotine. The mind was mankind's most painful torture chamber, the blessed liberty to cogitate offering either doom or salvation, depending on one's disposition.

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  Blessed, Offering, Iron

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.261, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• To Jacob the act of critiquing art was essentially imprecise. That's why he didn't read reviews on anything he liked, be it a book, a movie, or a record. He believed that any work an artist puts forth which contains the truth as he or she sees it is worthy of consideration, and any commentary of the work beyond that is nothing more than pure individual opinion and should not be considered relevant to the work itself.

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  Art, Book, Records

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2002). “God Shaped Hole: A Novel”, p.185, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• That's why you have to save the dying man. Because you want him around to keep saving you.

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  Men, Dying, Saving

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.47, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.

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  Song, Writing, Winning

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.231, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I took a closer look. Jesus had piercing blue eyes, dark hair that hung in a flawless mess, his body was emaciated and taut, his hands and feet dripped with blood, and nothing but a gauzy loincloth hid what looked like a nice package underneath. “Sexy,” I said. “He looks like a rock star.

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  Sexy, Jesus, Stars

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.18, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.

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  Dream, Song, Destiny

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.80, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.

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  Men, Dancing, Singing

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.87, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• The concept of time, as it’s commonly understood by normal people with normal jobs and normal goddamn lives, doesn’t exist on the road. The nights spread out like the dark, godforsaken highways that distinguish them, and the days run together like Thanksgiving dinner smothered in gravy. You never really know where you are or what time it is, and the outside world starts to fade away. It’s cool.

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  Running, Jobs, Dark

  Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.198, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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