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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Evanston
Illinois
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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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The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.
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I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.
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Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.
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Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t.
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Your mother won a special reward, she told me, because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.
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I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.
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It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.
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We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.
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It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.
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But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.
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Because the truth sometimes hurts, I said. Yeah, he said. So do lies, though.
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I am the middle sister. The one in between. Not oldest, not youngest, not boldest, not nicest. I am the shade of gray, the glass half empty or full, depending on your view. In my life, there has been little that I have done first or better than the one preceding or following me. Of all of us, though, I am the only one who has been broken.
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If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.
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When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.
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but you could also look at it the other way. Like you’re saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.
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You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.
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Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together.
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When you've never gotten love from someone, you don't know what it might look like if it ever does appear. You look for it in everything: any bright light overhead could be a star.
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All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you.
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