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Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Gayle Forman

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
Writer
LA
California
Sometimes
Make
Life
Choices

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Suddenly, it's all too much. Bryn and the bump watch. Vanessa with my high school yearbook. The idea that nothing's sacred. Everything's fodder. That my life belongs to anyone but me.
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And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.
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It's ok if you want to stop fighting.
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Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?
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Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.
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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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I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.
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You just work through it. You just hang in there.
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Why get stained when getting dirty is so much more fun
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What would you do if you had to choose?
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Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement Stitch.
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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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By that point, it’ll have been more than year since I met Lulu. Any sane person would say it’s too late. It already felt too late that first day, when I woke up in the hospital. But even so, I’ve kept looking. I’m still looking.
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And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.
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Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.
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A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.
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What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
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Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
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