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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Evanston
Illinois
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So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.
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But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.
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Sitting there with them, it was almost hard to remember when I first came to Perkins, so determined to remember to be a one-woman operation to the end. But that was the thing about taking help and giving it, or so I was learning there was no such thing as really getting even. Instead, this connection, once opened, remained ongoing over time.
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Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble
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Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.
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Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199
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I hated high school. I was not the greatest student, participated in no activities, and spent most of my time hanging out in my parking lot.
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With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.
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How fast were you? Wes asked me. I said, Not that fast. You mean you couldn't... fly? he said, smiling at me.
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“In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.” “How do you win?” he asked. “That,” I said, “is such a boy question.
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The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.
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I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I had no choice but to get out of my car, with everyone watching and begin in earnest, alone. So I did
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It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.
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It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.
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He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.
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Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.
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That was the thing about being on the inside: the world was just going on, even when it seemed like time for you had stopped for good.
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The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak.
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But sometimes you lose. Nothing you can do but admit it. -Eli
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The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.
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