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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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But I'd do it again. I know that now. I'd make that promise a thousand times over and lose her a thousand times over to have heard her play last night or to see her in the morning sunlight. Or even without that. Just to know that she's somewhere out there. Alive.
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That’s the thing you never expect about grieving, what a competition it is.
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Okay, maybe this was the meant to be: the universe I knew, loved nothing more than balance.
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This is myself, baby. All of my selves. I own each and every one of them. I know who I'm pretending to be and who I am. The look he gives me is withering. Do you?
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There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn’t looking for them. I was too busy checking over my shoulder at the fire I’d just come through to pay much attention to the thousand-foot cliff looming in front of me.
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It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge, Henry said.
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These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.
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I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.
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