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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
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Mia
Wishes
Plans
Control
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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 was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.
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And something tells me if it matters, maybe it shouldn't be easy.
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If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?
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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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It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.
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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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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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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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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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It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.
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Even going to jail would be easy compared to losing you.
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I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.
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...the world feels so big when you're out in the wide open. It's like you don't have a place in it when you don't have a home. Your place is right here, I whispered, laying down and hugging her close.
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Love can make you immortal
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Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?
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How can it be so unclear to her when it's like the fingers on my hand to me?
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