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Those were the 'ifs' that kept me from making a fool of myself.

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Kami Garcia
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 25
Artist
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
Making
Kept
Fool

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She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say.
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It was a promise she knew I might not be able to keep. But I made it anyway because I was going to find a way to make it true.
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...you cannot punish a wet child for the rain.
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And you couldn’t control who you loved, even if you wanted to. That had been Genevieve’s problem with Ethan Carter Wate. It had been Uncle Macon’s problem with Lila, Link’s with Ridley. Probably even Ridley’s with Link. Love was how all these knots started to unravel in the first place.
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Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.
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There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.
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You need help, and that's what books are for.
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There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.
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The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
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Everything in Gatlin was rigged. Why would the carnival games be any different?
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Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.
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I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.
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falling not flying one lost muddy shoe like the lost worlds between me and you
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High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.
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I wish I could print up a sign and tape it on my forehead. I OFFICIALLY DO NOT WANT TO KISS ETHAN WATE. NOW PLEASE LET ME BE FRIENDS WITH HIM.
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It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that.
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Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.
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I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed like I was always the one trying to save Lena, but the truth was she had saved me, and I wasn't ready for her to stop now.
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Sometimes things aren't what they seem and even a Seer can't see what's commin'.
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Power is neither good nor evil.
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