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All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.


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Human is what he decides to be.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.
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I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.
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I can't hide things from my Maker, so it is better to be honest.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was.
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when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
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More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
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Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is...
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He glanced over at me. 'Scared? Of Reggie? What, she thinks he might force her to give up caffeine f...
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In midair, dangling lost above the world.
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And so we stood there in the kitchen, my mother and I, facing off over everything that had built up ...
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And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
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Sometimes you dont even want to think aout what people are doing with their groceries.
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Best Friends.

And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to he...
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Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with yo...
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I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared abou...
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It was something I couldn't put my finger on or define clearly, but a whole mishmash of words and in...
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As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to l...
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The language of solace, and comets, and the girls we all become, in the end.
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This world is an awful/ugly place not to have a best friend.
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its reall bad
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Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.
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I hoped that Grace would be a little bit of the best of all of us: Scarlett's spirit, and my mother'...
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If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way
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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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And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she w...
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I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, trut...
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He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.
SARAH DESSEN
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 ...
SARAH DESSEN
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lo...
SARAH DESSEN
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.
SARAH DESSEN
The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get...
SARAH DESSEN
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.
SARAH DESSEN
It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you we...
SARAH DESSEN
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.
SARAH DESSEN
I think my mother characters have changed a lot since Sasha was born, just because I understand what...
SARAH DESSEN
With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is t...
SARAH DESSEN
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.
SARAH DESSEN
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."
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...
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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...
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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 ...
SARAH DESSEN
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.
SARAH DESSEN

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