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I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check. -Cora

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Underwear
Santa
Check
Checks
Seriously
Police
Doubt

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It's always very pure, that last moment before an ugly, unsettling truth hits someone. The most stark of before-and-afters.
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Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation at the universe then--and Luke, now--that was just the kind of comfort I needed. I'm such a mess, I said. We're almost off the island and I didn't even ask you where you were going. He shrugged. No place. Wherever you are.
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You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.
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Of course it hurts, she grumbled, tipping my head further back. Life sucks. Get over it
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It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.
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I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.
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It's so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself.
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'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
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call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or without it i was in it too.
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I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
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I feel like Twitter was tailor-made for me, because I can do short spurts all day long. I loved my blog, but doing daily, then thrice weekly entries was really time consuming. 140 characters is perfect.
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Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.
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She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.
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Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.
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Says the girl with no thyme.
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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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Even if you couldn't see it beneath the surface, molecules were bonding, energy pushing up slowly, as something worked do hare, all alone to grow.
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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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Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.
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All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.
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