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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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Mia
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In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.
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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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I like French fries, I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.
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Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back.
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I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.
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Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.
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I think you're the sort of person who finds money on the ground and waves it in the air and asks if anyone has lost it. I think you cry in movies that aren't even sad because you have a soft heart, though you don't let it show. I think you do things that scare you, and that makes you braver than those adrenaline junkies who bungee-jump off bridges.
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Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.
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...no way through it but through it, I tell myself.
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I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. When you travel, you put yourself out there. It's not always great. Sometimes it's terrible. But other times ... [...] It's not so bad.
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You don’t share me. You own me.
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But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.
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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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No one is who they pretend to be
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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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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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Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.
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Sacrifice, that's what we do for the people we love.
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And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.
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It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam
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