I got back in my car, starting the engine, then drove off. It wasn't until I pulled onto the highway that it all really sunk it, how temporary our friendship had been. We'd been on our breaks, after all, but it wasn't our relationships that were on pause: it was us. Now we were both in motion again, moving ahead. So what if there were questions left unanswered. Life went on. We knew that better than anyone.
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Related Now we were both in motion again, moving ahead. So what if there were questions left unanswered. Lif... SARAH DESSEN Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-of... SHEL SILVERSTEIN VIEW FROM A HILL I am not yet quite over it. I am lying down on top of it. Surv... JOHN TOTTENHAM Still i knew because of my own feelings there was something wrong with me and i knew it wasnt only m... DONALD MILLER We were getting a little worried. But we were confident we had it. All season our defense has been c... BRIAN WAGNER Our defense is what really got us going. When we get stops, we were able to execute on offense. That... CHAD MCGUIRE I always loved fish-eye lenses. It came from how radical my [eyeglass] prescription was. It wasnt un... MARK MOTHERSBAUGH It was so tough because it all seemed to be happening in slow motion. Our girls were so focused on j... JEN MCDAVITT I got burned here (on his hands), underneath my arm, both ears, around my neck and the top of my bac... RICK ALEXANDER There were a lot of things going on, ... I wasnt too happy. I wasnt going to play. JASON CAMPBELL We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I look back on it now and how tough it really was last year and as a team how hard we battled. All t... LIZ SHIMEK Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT We played really well. We were down in numbers because it was Russian Christmas, so we had to rely o... TJ BAILEY It was in the back of our minds that we may have had the lead, but we didn't really know. We really,... KATIE HARDMAN Somebody was laying something down on the track. I knew the tires were getting bad. All of a sudden ... MIKE BARNES They got heart, and now they got their heads back in it. People were talking and saying that we coul... BRUCE DURHAM We were dumping it out today. Our outside halves gave us more effort than they have been and I was p... DOUG KILBY We knew we were the underdogs. But we were ready. We had it on our minds that we wouldn't let it sli... BRITTNEY WILLIAMS Coach got on our tails about us not playing as hard as we usually play, so we had to really think ab... BRANDON BOWDRY They were on the air, and they had been struck by the tornado and the storms before we were, and the... ERNIE SLOTTAG Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL My perception is that pretty much all the teams will be after us now. We just have to hold our compo... STEFON JACKSON I knew that I better make the second one because a lot is riding on it and I knew if I missed it my ... SPENCER GARDNER It was a little of both. We were all really excited for our first Big East trip, but focusing on eve... BRETT BINKLEY There are no more people on the train. Our concern was that there were people left in the car undern... LUIGI IRDI People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER They were the No. 2 seed, it was in their gym and their fans were really loud, but I was really prou... HERB GRACE We haven't really thought about it a lot. The beginning of February when the Olympics started, we al... SASHA CARTER We were both holding on to this thing, this monster between us. And now that I saw it, I could almos... JAIMAL YOGIS Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about o... ANN PATCHETT The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only ... QUINN SHEPHARD I didn't really think about it until I let it go. I didn't know (how big it was) until after the gam... JOE BALLARD Overtime flashed in my mind once, when Nikki Wood was on the line, but after that, I didn't think ab... DEBBIE STROMAN We had a lead after the first quarter, but after that it seemed like we lost focus. Defensively we w... DENA RUSSO That was our best night foul shooting. We've been working on it all season. We started the year shoo... DON CORRY The first shot I took in the game, he blocked. After that it was in my head that his arms were way l... DEVIN TARRANT We were strong on all four events today. It's really exciting to be moving onto finals. Anybody in o... DAN KENDIG I am dreading it. I don't want anything to happen to either Bryan or Steve. It would be better if we... SIR ALEX FERGUSON The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifti... CRAIG GROESCHEL Early on we were urgent, but not urgent enough and our hearts were only kind of in it. We just thoug... ASHLEY HORNISHER We had a larger pool of candidates that all were qualified uniquely in their own way. It was a very ... AUSTIN ADAMS I knew it was our last chance and we really needed to leave it all on the court. Little injuries are... NATALIE LAND We were aware (the Nebraska was leading), but we were focusing on ourselves. We had to hit good rout... JANET ANSON The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L... JOHN C. MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken. JOHN LEACH We were not using our machine guns except when we were under attack because we were short on ammunit... ROBERT CARROLL [The franchisees had borrowed heavily to buy the company.] We were staring a 20% interest rate in th... BOB WEST It was all burned out, with only a skeleton left, ... On the floor there were shoes and boots -- boo... GORAN PERSSON I really feel that's been why we've been successful over the last two years. We were stepping into a... KRIS STEWART It's that Prairie tradition and all. They came out knowing they were going to win. I don't think we ... KRISTI KINGMA Athletically, they were much faster than us. But we just didn't play our best game. We made a lot of... DENNIS YOUNG Athletically, they were much faster than us, ... But we just didn't play our best game. We made a lo... DENNIS YOUNG We weren't going to leave but we were told that 18 to 20 feet of water in New Orleans we knew we had... JEANNE CLARK She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands f... SARAH DESSEN And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio s... RINGO STARR When we were 1-6, all we focused on was that we were better than that. We knew it; we just had to pr... JUSTIN INGRAM Neither games were bad games at all. In the last inning in both games we were tied. Offensively, it ... KYLI HANSON It means that our lawsuit has been concluded. We got the result we were looking for all along. HUGH HOWSER Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I wa... TAMMY DUCKWORTH People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a ch... ANGELA CARTWRIGHT I had never said those words because there were no words left. My beloved and I were both exiles fro... FAIQA MANSAB I knew that for my team I needed to get something going since we were flat. She had been throwing in... ASHLEY LONCARICH We dropped our hands, both embarrassed by the sincerity of the moment. But I was learning, Sometimes... GWENDA BOND It just makes me sick to my stomach that we were close to doing something that would have been very ... RICH BROOKS We all went out there with the attitude that we were going to give it our all. KAITLIN PAGE I know fans have been really tough on Justin, but they have to remember that things were different w... DAN HAMMERSCHMIDT Everything went very smoothly today, ... On the first run, the car smoked the tires instantly. We ma... LARRY DIXON We felt that we were definitely the better team, we just had to show it. We knew if we played our ga... ADAM CAMPBELL I had no doubts that my team would have pulled it off. It was less than what we were used to scoring... CAROL HIBBERT Our intensity was much better than it had been in some recent game, but their intensity was better. ... JENNY TEATER I knew we had won it before we even got on the field. When we were on the bus coming up, everybody s... CAMERON BEARD I had to back off on one lap near the end because of yellow flags, but that happened while we were o... JACQUES VILLENEUVE And it wasn't necessarily because they were bigger. I just think, sometimes our rebounding habits we... GEORGE KARL Today wasn't too bad. We had a couple of plays on offense where we got soft on our protection, but w... GUY MORRISS We got ahead, and we sort of sat on it and maybe got a little conservative. I didn't feel like they ... BRENT MILLER We got ahead, and we sort of sat on it and maybe got a little conservative, ... I didn't feel like t... BRENT MILLER Looking back on the season that we had and how crazy it was, I was just so excited that we got it do... HANNAH KIRK We were working on our doubles because we got swept there by Texas Tech and (we are) focused on conc... OLGA KLIMOVA That was a very tough race. The timing of the safety car period worked to our advantage early on and... RALF SCHUMACHER She's been an inspiration to all of us. We were really crossing our fingers hoping that she would ge... ELLI OCHOWICZ Our backs were against the wall, but we pulled it off. EMILY MCNAMARA We were just taking advantage of what we had. We knew we were quicker than the guys they were puttin... REYSHAWN TERRY I knew we had been struggling with our confidence offensively. I wanted us to get back to that level... JACQUIE SEAWRIGHT I think we had more team unity tonight than we've had all season. We performed well tonight. We knew... ASHLEY MILES We knew that she was their go-to player. We knew that if we cut the head off then it was going to be... ESSENCE CARSON With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i... STEVEN STRAIT It was our view of the worst that could befall our people if they were taken captive. So, what was f... JANE MAYER It really hit home that we were developing a community here, people who really truly loved the Subwa... BILLY LUNN It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. ... OSCAR WILDE It didn't meet all our ears that well because we were writing a new record and had great material an... RICKY PHILLIPS I think they were struggling to pass and it got in their heads a little bit. But we've been working ... CASSIE OSIECKI I give them credit, too. They were down 4-3 and that must have been disheartening. They came back --... BILL WALLACE After the Saint Martin's game (a 105-104 overtime win on Feb. 11), we did something we hadn't done s... GREG SPARLING In the first period we were all over them at the start, but then we got away from our game. We knew ... BRIAN CAMPBELL We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi... CHRISTINA ENGELA It just happens that a lot of us have been through too much that is even too less than our age..and ... TEMITAYO A We changed our approach at the plate and it started to pay off. Early on I felt our batters were pla... JEFF PAUL I was born in 1935, so I was quite young when the war started. I remember we were in Bath, and it wa... MARY BERRY
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SARAH DESSEN Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anyt... SARAH DESSEN Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all... SARAH DESSEN Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the... SARAH DESSEN I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran... SARAH DESSEN Nothing like being scolded by a hippie. SARAH DESSEN After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and sp... SARAH DESSEN I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented. SARAH DESSEN Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never rea... SARAH DESSEN After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor wo... SARAH DESSEN It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost... SARAH DESSEN It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it should... SARAH DESSEN When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need. SARAH DESSEN That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death... SARAH DESSEN It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean. SARAH DESSEN I want the white one SARAH DESSEN As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret... SARAH DESSEN Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?" What do you mean?"... SARAH DESSEN I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as... SARAH DESSEN So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me. "Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie." SARAH DESSEN Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there h... SARAH DESSEN I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings... SARAH DESSEN If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don�... SARAH DESSEN Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff... SARAH DESSEN There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto... SARAH DESSEN That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing... SARAH DESSEN And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling in... SARAH DESSEN Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. SARAH DESSEN It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were y... SARAH DESSEN These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to... SARAH DESSEN You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like... SARAH DESSEN Story of my life. SARAH DESSEN instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her ... SARAH DESSEN I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, callin... SARAH DESSEN I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am ... SARAH DESSEN I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had t... SARAH DESSEN Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtak... SARAH DESSEN Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. SARAH DESSEN