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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
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Evanston
Illinois
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The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
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It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.
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How fast were you? Wes asked me. I said, Not that fast. You mean you couldn't... fly? he said, smiling at me.
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It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.
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I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.
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I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.
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I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.
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The way I see it, she continued, is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.
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The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.
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So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.
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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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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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As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.
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From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that were being lived within it, and in the house beside, and beside that one. So much happening in the world, night and day, hour by hour. It was no wonder we were meant to sleep, if only to check out of it for a little while.
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You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!
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The truth was, I wasn't sure. But I wanted to keep believing people could change, and it was certainly easier to do so when you were in the midst of it.
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No one could tell you: you just had to go through it on your own. If you were lucky, you came out on the other side and understood. If you didn't, you kept getting thrust back, retracing those steps, until you finally got it right.
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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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That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.
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The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.
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