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It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

Gayle Forman

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Gayle Forman
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 5
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Adam
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So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.
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I don’t want to be that person, who just takes things.
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It's ok if you want to stop fighting.
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The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.
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In that twisted incestuous way of fate, Mia's a part of our history, and we're among the shards of her legacy.
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But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall 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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The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant other times, they change everything.
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And I kissed him back so hard, like I was trying to merge our bodies through our lips.
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I realize it’s not just Willem I’m looking for it’s Lulu too.
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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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Traveling is not something you are good at. It is something you do. Like breathing.
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She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?
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I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic.
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Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his lips are soft and his kiss is gentle, it feels like a knife jamming into the electrical socket. It feels like the moment when I go live
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Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
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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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...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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