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It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.
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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
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Silence is so freaking loud
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But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.
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It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.
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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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This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.
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But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.
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Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.
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It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do - need to do - more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.
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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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We can all be beautiful girls.
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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
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What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.
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Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.
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You asked me to go out with you. I know you probably changed your mind. But you should know, the answer was yes. It's always been yes when it comes to you.
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Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.
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We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
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Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.
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Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing.
Sarah Dessen
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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