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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Evanston
Illinois
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Funny
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Beautiful

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But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.
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That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.
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You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,' he said. It's that simple.
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You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.
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After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat.
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There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.
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All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this.
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I always wrote about girls that went to the beach and had that summer that changed everything. So I was interested in what it would be like to live in a tourist town where everyone has these life changing experiences, but your whole life is there.
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Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
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Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.
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Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.
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Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.
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I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.
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No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.
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It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so little to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.
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I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.
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I don't lie. You don't lie, I repeated. That's what I said. Ever. Nope. Sure you don't, I thought.
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In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
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It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.
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Never would forever, with all its meanings, be so clear and distinct as in the true, guaranteed end of the world.
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