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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

Gayle Forman

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
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LA
California
Wishes
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Mia

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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 ok if you want to stop fighting.
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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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You don’t share me. You own me.
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The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.
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So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?” “No. The wind just blew me here.” “What? Like a plastic bag?” “I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.
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Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
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If these walls could talk, I wonder what secrets they'd tell.
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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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I realize then that it's not enough to know what someone is called. You have to know who they are.
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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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One day she told me that they'd decided that my gender was divvied into two neat piles-Men and Guys. Basically, all the saints of the world: Men. The jerks, the players, the wet T-shirt contest aficionados? They were Guys.
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Anything can happen in one day.
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I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.
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You have to fall in love to be in love, but falling in love isn't the same as being in love
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She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?
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I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears.
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There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.
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I'm so tired of missing things I don't have.
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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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