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We can all be beautiful girls.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Girls
Girl
Beautiful

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Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.
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Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.
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Once, I was easy. Now, I was choosy. See? Big difference.
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It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.
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Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.
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Welcome to adulthood, she said. It sucks as much as high school.
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I just can't ever be a free spirit and just relax. When it comes to work, this is good. I'm very disciplined, which with writing is often half the battle, or more. But it also means that if I want to, say, play hooky and chocolate and watch Bravo all afternoon, I feel horribly guilty. I wish I could find a nice balance.
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It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.
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And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. It was my mother.
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I took in a breath. What's the one thing you'd do, I asked. if you could do anything? Pass, he said. For a second I was sure I'd heard wrong. What? He cleared his throat. I said, I pass. Why? He turned his head and looked at me. Because. Because why? Because I just do.
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Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.
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You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.
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Rogerson, I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, where would I find the pelagic zone? In the open sea, he said. Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.
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And trying to break it down this way, to minor and major offenses, maybes and what-ifs, was like arguing over the origin of cracks in a broken egg. It was done. How it happened didn't matter anymore.
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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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And to know me, as you have discovered, is to love me.
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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.
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How weird that must be, to stay the same as everyone else changes.
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