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I'm not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I'm not sure that I want to wake up.

Gayle Forman

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
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But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away. He was right, after all it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.
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It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.
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So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.
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My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.
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It's nice, this. The canal. He looks at me. You. I'll bet you say that to all the canals.
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Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that said because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.
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You forget, time doesn't exist anymore. You gave it to me.
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There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.' She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.
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I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.
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..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.
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In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.
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Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.
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A thousand suns rise from my chest.
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We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.
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It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.
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It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.
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Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
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...no way through it but through it, I tell myself.
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It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.
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