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I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.

Gayle Forman

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
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She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?
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Sometimes the wind blows you places you weren't expecting: sometimes it blows you away from those places, too.
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It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.
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If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.
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He looks at one of the pictures for a long time. Then he looks at me. I'll keep you up here. He taps his temple. Where you can't get lost.
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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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..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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You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia
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