So just over a year ago, there was this guy. I really liked him. I mean really – since I was a kid.” “Did Frankie know him?” “The three of us were best friends. We basically grew up together.” “Complicated.” “Very. So anyway, last year on my birthday, he finally kissed me.” Sam stays quiet, focused on his feet taking off and landing against the sand. It feels strange to tell him about this for so many reasons, but the words are coming too fast for me to stop, even if I want to. “We started hanging out all the time – even more than before. Every night. Only we didn’t know how to tell Frankie, because we didn’t want her to freak or feel left out or whatever.” “Makes sense,” Sam says. “He thought it would be better if he told her himself, so I promised him that I wouldn’t say anything. But before he could talk to her about it, he–” I almost choke on the word, holding my hand against Sam’s arm to stop our forward motion along the shore. “What did he do?” Sam asks. “He just – he – I’m sorry. Wait.” The words of this story have passed a thousand times from my hand to the pages of my journal, but never from my lips to the ears of another living soul. I take a few deep breaths before I’m able to meet Sam’s eyes and say it. “He died, Sam.
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SARAH DESSEN No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to giv... SARAH DESSEN Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow comple... SARAH DESSEN I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I... SARAH MACLEAN I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he ... SARAH DESSEN All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient ... SARAH BERNHARDT Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes t... SARAH CALDWELL I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know the... SARAH BERNHARDT Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet, When I share my later science, sitti... SARAH WILLIAMS For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste w... SARAH BERNHARDT The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily prop... SARAH BERNHARDT The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to rig... SARAH BERNHARDT New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and per... SARAH BERNHARDT You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the strivin... SARAH BERNHARDT America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that... SARAH PALIN We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have ... SARAH BERNHARDT As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill. SARAH CHURCHILL I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. SARAH BERNHARDT Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when ... SARAH CALDWELL I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only le... SARAH MCLACHLAN I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is he... SARAH MCLACHLAN There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God. SARAH MILES Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Bec... SARAH DESSEN Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memo... SARAH DESSEN I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft lan... SARAH DESSEN If the mind is open and awake
then.... do the gods partake
to fill the spaces inbetween
the dreamer ... SARAH PERE Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. SARAH BERNHARDT This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in ... SARAH DESSEN I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope."... SARAH DESSEN for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world... SARAH DESSEN My grandmother is British. She was in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. That&... SARAH GADON I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, ... SARAH DESSEN My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then ne... SARAH WATERS Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotion... SARAH CHURCHWELL The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, d... SARAH MACLEAN We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity... SARAH PALIN It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to sw... SARAH CHALKE There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be ab... SARAH MCLACHLAN