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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
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
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He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.
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Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.
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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.
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So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.
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Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.
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Love can make up for a lot.
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I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
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Just because we don’t see eye to eye on everything doesn’t mean we can’t be close.
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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge
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I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.
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There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
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I honestly don't have many creative outlets. I'm not crafty - although motherhood has forced me to try to be - and I can only draw trees, beaches, and clouds. I'm a so-so cook except for deviled eggs. Writing has always been the one thing I feel that I am pretty good at doing. But it's enough, thank goodness.
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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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There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.
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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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It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.
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The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
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Of course it hurts, she grumbled, tipping my head further back. Life sucks. Get over it
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There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.
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