I turned and looked into the gas station, where Wes was now paying, as the man who'd driven us looked on. "That's too bad," I said.
"It's okay, though," she assured me. "Someday I'll show you an extraordinary boy, Macy. They do exist. You just have to believe me."
"Don't worry," I said. "I do.


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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not y...
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Mom." I couldn't believe she was doing this again. She was taking this moment, this time when I was ...
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I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd thi...
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Macon: “It’s true. And if that doesn’t work, use the Jedi Mind Trick. But only if you really h...
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Don't be a fool. Don't give up something important to hold onto someone who can't even say they love...
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I've given lots of people chances," she said suddenly, as if Marion was still in the room to hear us...
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I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from...
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You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop ...
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You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lo...
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What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they we...
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Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overt...
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Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.
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The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get...
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An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led u...
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So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop the...
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Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
-Maggie
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Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, "You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter wha...
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So much had happened that morning. Yet it was this image, this moment, that i kept going back to hou...
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[Adam picks up the camera] "I have to get a shot of this."
The reaction in the room was swift, ...
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You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take.
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It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you we...
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There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other peo...
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You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a wo...
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Hate Spinnerbait!
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It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovere...
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It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.
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Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground...
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There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me ...
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Oh for God's sake,' Heather said, 'I wish you two would just go out, fail miserably as a couple, and...
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It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it tak...
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Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.
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I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what...
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With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is t...
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You want me to give her a key?" the guy asked.
"I want you to give her a possibility," she told...
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What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered wh...
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Look,” he said, “the point is there’s no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anyt...
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Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all...
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Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the...
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I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran...
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Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.
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After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and sp...
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I knew this feeling, the 2 a.m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.
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Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never rea...
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After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor wo...
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It [I'm leaving] wasn't really necessary to say, especially if you were already walking away. Almost...
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It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it should...
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When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.
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That's not a real answer.'
Says who?'
Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death...
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It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.
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I want the white one
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As Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pret...
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Isn't it weird," I said, "the way you remember things, when someone's gone?"
What do you mean?"...
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I can still see Boo sitting there on the floor, cross-legged, holding my Ken and watching my face as...
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So what's your doll's name?" Boo asked me.
"Barbie," I said. "All their names are Barbie."
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Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"
He thought for a moment. "Who says there h...
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I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be one of so many, to have not just parents and siblings...
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If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don�...
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Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuff...
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There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto...
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That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me--it was nothing...
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And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling in...
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Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak.
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It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were y...
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These were always the weirdest trips for me, when it was midnight or even later, and we pulled up to...
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You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like...
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Story of my life.
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instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her ...
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I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, callin...
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I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am ...
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I'd been convinced I was on the outside, but really, I'd always been within arm's reach. All I had t...
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Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtak...
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Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.
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