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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Stories
Story
Funny
Song
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Beautiful

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You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.
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The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.
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Because the truth sometimes hurts, I said. Yeah, he said. So do lies, though.
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Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.
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I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous.
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It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.
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There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.
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I didn't want to talk about what happened, so it seemed safest not to talk at all.
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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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With love like that, you can't get pick about how it finds you or the details. All that matters is that it's there. Better late than never.
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The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
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I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.
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The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
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It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
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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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Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.
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It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.
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It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.
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You punched him by accident.
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You can't act like you care about someone but not let them care about you.
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