It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have to have the last word.


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SARAH DESSEN
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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