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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
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Evanston
Illinois

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People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less
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I'm really interested in the idea of anomynity and familiarity. And sunglasses, you know, are so indicatitve of that. I mean, they're worn by some people to hide themselves. But they're also a fashion statement, meant to be noticed. So there's a dichotomy there.
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The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel to quiet when you're with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.
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It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.
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You just had to know where to look.
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After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.
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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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Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.
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You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one day, Morgan said something and you laughed, and I remember thinking it was really cool because it meant something. You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.
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As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.
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Life isn't fair, Owen told her. Get used to it.
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This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on.
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I seriously doubt that the Santa police do an underwear check. -Cora
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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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He wasn't what I'd thought he was maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.
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And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.
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If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.
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When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.
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I've seen what commitment leads to. Going in is the easy part. It's the ending that sucks! -Remy
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