Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.


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"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, t...
SARAH DESSEN
We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid...
SARAH VOWELL
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
SARAH BOSELEY
There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single f...
SARAH DESSEN
And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself ...
SARAH DESSEN
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit.
SARAH DESSEN
But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.
SARAH DESSEN
Okay,' he said. He took a breath. 'What would you do, if you could do anything?'
I took a step ...
SARAH DESSEN
The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affe...
SARAH DESSEN
But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized ...
SARAH DESSEN
I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not...
SARAH DESSEN
But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you anoth...
SARAH DESSEN
But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to h...
SARAH DESSEN
I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into a...
SARAH DESSEN
I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There we...
SARAH DESSEN
If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.
SARAH DESSEN
the truth about forever is that it is happening right now
SARAH DESSEN
Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always ch...
SARAH DESSEN
I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As lo...
SARAH DESSEN
Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
SARAH DESSEN
We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe...
SARAH DESSEN
What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, wou...
SARAH DESSEN
But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised.
Yo...
SARAH DESSEN
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
SARAH DESSEN
It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You ...
SARAH DESSEN
What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a ...
SARAH DESSEN
Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem ...
SARAH DESSEN
I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
SARAH DESSEN
It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end...
SARAH DESSEN
That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it...
SARAH DESSEN
It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the ...
SARAH DESSEN
If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...
SARAH DESSEN
There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd bet...
SARAH DESSEN
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
SARAH WILLIAMS
All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bit...
SARAH DESSEN
I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, ...
SARAH DESSEN